{"id":88391,"date":"2025-11-26T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/spain-and-germany-to-davis-cup-semifinals-granollers-and-zverev-shine-6\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:42:15","slug":"spain-and-germany-to-davis-cup-semifinals-granollers-and-zverev-shine-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/spain-and-germany-to-davis-cup-semifinals-granollers-and-zverev-shine-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain and Germany to Davis Cup Semifinals: Granollers and Zverev shine"},"content":{"rendered":"In an exciting Davis Cup encounter held in Bologna, Spain achieved a spectacular comeback to secure their place in the semi-finals, defeating the Czech Republic with a score of 2-1.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Granollers and Mart\u00ednez, Heroes of the Day<\/h2>\n\n\nThe pair formed by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portero emerged as the key to the Spanish triumph. In a decisive doubles match, they managed to defeat Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik, thus sealing the victory for Spain.\n\nThe Spanish team had to overcome the absence of their star, Carlos Alcaraz, who was forced to withdraw due to a hamstring injury. Despite this significant loss, Granollers and Mart\u00ednez took the lead and guided Spain to the semifinals.\n\nSpain, which hadn&#8217;t reached the semifinals since its victory in 2019, where it won its sixth Davis Cup title, will now face Germany, which secured its spot after defeating Argentina with the same score of 2-1.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Germany Advances Too<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the match between Germany and Argentina, Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz, in a close doubles match that was decided in a tiebreak of the third set, secured the victory for Germany.\n\nThe doubles match between Granollers\/Mart\u00ednez and Machac\/Mensik was decided with partial scores of 7-6 (8), 7-6 (8) at the SuperTennis Arena.\n\nJakub Mensik, with 20 aces, had given the advantage to the Czech Republic by defeating Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta. However, Jaume Munar tied the series for Spain by defeating Jiri Lehecka. Munar expressed his confidence: &#8220;No matter who is in front, I had a lot of confidence in myself and that is the main thing&#8221;.\n\nIn the other match, Tomas Martin Etcheverry put Argentina ahead, but Alexander Zverev equalized for Germany. In the doubles, Krawietz and Puetz came back to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10).\n\nThe Davis Cup in Bologna, in its sixth edition, continues with Italy, who are seeking their third consecutive title, facing Belgium in the other semi-final. Italy will not have Jannik Sinner, who is resting.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exciting Davis Cup encounter held in Bologna, Spain achieved a spectacular comeback to secure their place in the semi-finals, defeating the Czech Republic with a score of 2-1. Granollers and Mart\u00ednez, Heroes of the Day The pair formed by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portero emerged as the key to the Spanish triumph. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[8297,2430,481,3030],"class_list":{"0":"post-88391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-davis-cup","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-semifinals","11":"tag-spain"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}