{"id":90805,"date":"2025-11-28T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/spain-and-germany-to-davis-cup-semifinals-granollers-and-zverev-shine-9\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:11:15","slug":"spain-and-germany-to-davis-cup-semifinals-granollers-and-zverev-shine-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/spain-and-germany-to-davis-cup-semifinals-granollers-and-zverev-shine-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain and Germany to Davis Cup Semifinals: Granollers and Zverev Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"In a day filled with excitement and hard-fought matches, Spain and Germany secured their place in the semifinals of the Davis Cup, demonstrating a high level of tennis and determination on the court.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spain Beats Czech Republic<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Spanish team, led by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portero, achieved a crucial victory in the decisive doubles match, defeating Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik. This victory secured Spain&#8217;s triumph with a score of 2-1 over the Czech Republic, opening the doors to the semifinals.\n\nGranollers and Mart\u00ednez shone in the absence of Carlos Alcaraz, who was forced to withdraw due to a hamstring injury. The Spanish duo proved their worth by winning the doubles with a score of 7-6 (8), 7-6 (8) at the SuperTennis Arena.\n\nThe 20-year-old Mensik stood out with 20 aces, securing the advantage for the Czech team by defeating Pablo Carre\u00f1o Busta with a score of 7-5, 6-4. However, Jaume Munar responded for Spain, winning his first singles match in the Davis Cup against Jiri Lehecka, with a result of 6-3, 6-4.\n\n\u201cI had a lot of confidence in my tennis. It doesn&#8217;t matter who is in front. I had a lot of confidence in myself and that&#8217;s the most important thing,\u201d declared Munar.\n\nSpain will face Germany in the semi-finals, a match that promises to be a clash of titans.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Germany Secures Spot in Semifinals<\/h2>\n\n\nGermany, for its part, achieved a narrow victory over Argentina with a score of 2-1. Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz were the heroes of the day, winning the decisive doubles in a third-set tiebreaker against Andr\u00e9s Molteni and Horacio Zeballos.\n\nTomas Martin Etcheverry put Argentina in the lead by defeating Jan-Lennard Struff, but Alexander Zverev tied the score for Germany by defeating Francisco Cerundolo. In the doubles, Krawietz and Puetz came back to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10), in a match where both teams wasted match points.\n\nThe Davis Cup in Bologna continues to offer high-quality tennis, with Italy facing Belgium in the other semifinal. The Italians, without Jannik Sinner, will seek their third consecutive title and the fourth overall.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a day filled with excitement and hard-fought matches, Spain and Germany secured their place in the semifinals of the Davis Cup, demonstrating a high level of tennis and determination on the court. Spain Beats Czech Republic The Spanish team, led by Marcel Granollers and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portero, achieved a crucial victory in the decisive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[8297,2430,3030,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-90805","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-spain","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90805","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=90805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}