{"id":23419,"date":"2025-09-14T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/spain-will-meet-to-reach-the-davis-cup-final-8-we-australia-lose\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:18:20","slug":"spain-will-meet-to-reach-the-davis-cup-final-8-we-australia-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/spain-will-meet-to-reach-the-davis-cup-final-8-we-australia-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain will meet to reach the Davis Cup final 8. We Australia lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Spain, Marvela &#8211; Spain played in the Davis Cup Final 8, 2-0, 3-2, on Sunday, with a 2-0 win over Denmark, but Australia had no such comeback as they lost 3-2 to Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech Republic overcame the US with Taylor Fritz on Saturday and fought back from the match to win 3-2 in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Spain, without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, lost two opening rubbers and set down in doubles after Jam Munar and Pedro Martinez defeated August Holmgren and Johannes Ingeldsen 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez also saw a 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 (3) victory at Holga Rune after facing match points that would have sent Denmark in his first reverse singles match.<\/p>\n<p>Pablo Carreno Busta beat Elmer Mueller 6-2, 6-3, making it the first time in history to return to Spain from 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Australia also recovered from 2-0 after Alex de Minauru defeated Zizoo Bertz 6-2, 7-5 to force a decider.<\/p>\n<p>But the world is no. 91 Rafael Corignon supported the victory over eighth-placed De Minaur the day before, winning 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the second day at the tie level, 1-1 at Delray Beach, the US pairs Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek won tight doubles matches against Tomas Machac and Jakub Mensik 7-6 (6), 5-7, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Jiri Lehekka leveled the tie with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 victory over fifth-placed Fritz before Mensyk rolled Francis Tierfoe 6-1, 6-4 to seal off the Czech tie.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday, Argentina, Austria and France joined Germany, winning in the Netherlands, Hungary, Croatia and Japan, respectively, securing their positions in the finals in Bologna.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time defending champion Italy qualifies as a host for the final round in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain, Marvela &#8211; Spain played in the Davis Cup Final 8, 2-0, 3-2, on Sunday, with a 2-0 win over Denmark, but Australia had no such comeback as they lost 3-2 to Belgium. The Czech Republic overcame the US with Taylor Fritz on Saturday and fought back from the match to win 3-2 in Florida. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2040,913,6146,63,2379,2493,197,1907,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-23419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-davis","11":"tag-final","12":"tag-lose","13":"tag-meet","14":"tag-reach","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}