{"id":27410,"date":"2025-11-20T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/spain-defeats-czech-republic-and-advances-to-davis-cup-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T18:10:20","slug":"spain-defeats-czech-republic-and-advances-to-davis-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/spain-defeats-czech-republic-and-advances-to-davis-cup-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain defeats Czech Republic and advances to Davis Cup semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BOLOGNA, ITALY — Marcel Granolles and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portelo defeated Tomas Machak and Jakub Mencik in a tiebreaker, helping Spain, without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, beat the Czech Republic and advance to Thursday’s Davis Cup semifinals.<\/p>\n

Six-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz withdrew this week with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

After both teams split two singles matches, Granojes and Martinez won the doubles match 7-6 (8), 7-6 (8) at Super Tennis Arena, advancing to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Spain will face second-place Germany or Argentina in the final quarter-final on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Mencic hit 20 aces en route to a 7-5, 6-4 victory over veteran Pablo Carreno Busta, followed by Jaume Munar, who defeated world No. 17 Jiri Rehechka 6-3, 6-4 to win Spain’s first Davis Cup singles title.<\/p>\n

Spain had not reached the semi-finals since winning the tournament for the sixth time in 2019, while fourth-seeded Czech Republic had been eliminated since 2014.<\/p>\n

Leaders Italy, aiming for their third consecutive victory and fourth place overall, will face Belgium in the other semi-final. The Italian team is without world No. 2 Jannik Sinner, who is resting.<\/p>\n

The Davis Cup final in Bologna will be the sixth of the revamped event to determine the champion on a neutral site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOLOGNA, ITALY — Marcel Granolles and Pedro Mart\u00ednez Portelo defeated Tomas Machak and Jakub Mencik in a tiebreaker, helping Spain, without top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, beat the Czech Republic and advance to Thursday’s Davis Cup semifinals. Six-time Grand Slam champion Alcaraz withdrew this week with a hamstring injury. After both teams split two singles matches, Granojes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[140,913,4361,6146,27,7014,1849,1907,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-27410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-advances","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-czech","11":"tag-davis","12":"tag-defeats","13":"tag-republic","14":"tag-semifinals","15":"tag-spain","16":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27410","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=27410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}