{"id":26919,"date":"2025-11-18T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/bergs-beat-france-to-advance-belgium-to-davis-cup-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:56:26","slug":"bergs-beat-france-to-advance-belgium-to-davis-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/18\/bergs-beat-france-to-advance-belgium-to-davis-cup-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergs beat France to advance Belgium to Davis Cup semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BOLOGNA, Italy &#8212; Zizou Bergs defeated Arthur Rinderknev 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Tuesday, giving Belgium a commanding 2-0 lead over 10-time champion France into the Davis Cup semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium had lost the last four meetings against France, including the 2017 final. They will play either top-ranked Italy or Austria on Friday. The remaining two quarterfinals will be played on Thursday and include second-place Germany vs. Argentina and Spain vs. fourth-seeded Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Bergs remained in control throughout, clinching the match with a stunning forehand winner down the line.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Raphael Collignon defeated Corentin Moutet 2-6, 7-5, 7-5 to give Belgium a 1-0 lead. Tie matches will be played as a best-of-three match, with two singles matches and one doubles match.<\/p>\n<p>Both countries have returned to this stage of team competition since it was revamped in 2019. The Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna will be the sixth time the tournament has crowned the champion on neutral soil.<\/p>\n<p>Moutet played solid tennis until the 12th game of the second set, but committed two double faults, attempted a leg-to-leg shot, wavered from an easy point at the net, and dropped serve as Collignon pressed for a decisive opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>A similar scenario unfolded in the third set, when Collignon earned a decisive break in the final game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a crazy game,&#8221; Collignon said.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will be without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, who was sidelined early Tuesday with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOLOGNA, Italy &#8212; Zizou Bergs defeated Arthur Rinderknev 6-3, 7-6 (4) on Tuesday, giving Belgium a commanding 2-0 lead over 10-time champion France into the Davis Cup semifinals. Belgium had lost the last four meetings against France, including the 2017 final. They will play either top-ranked Italy or Austria on Friday. The remaining two quarterfinals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[292,2614,3373,6931,913,6146,189,1849,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-26919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advance","9":"tag-beat","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-bergs","12":"tag-cup","13":"tag-davis","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-semifinals","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919","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=26919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}