{"id":27493,"date":"2025-11-20T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/spain-defeats-czech-republic-and-will-face-germany-in-davis-cup-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:13:12","slug":"spain-defeats-czech-republic-and-will-face-germany-in-davis-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/spain-defeats-czech-republic-and-will-face-germany-in-davis-cup-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain defeats Czech Republic and will face Germany in 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 the doubles final as Spain won 2-1 on Thursday, defeating the Czech Republic and advancing to the Davis Cup semifinals.<\/p>\n

Granolles and Martinez played in the absence of top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, a six-time Grand Slam champion who withdrew from Spain’s national team due to a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

Spain, who had not reached the semifinals since winning the last of their six Davis Cup titles in 2019, will next face second-seeded Germany, who defeated Argentina 2-1.<\/p>\n

Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz defeated Andres Molteni and Horacio Zeballos in a third-set tie-break in the doubles final, giving Germany a victory in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Argentina was aiming for its 100th Davis Cup victory.<\/p>\n

spanish gathering<\/hl2> In the doubles match held at the Super Tennis Arena, Granolles and Martinez won 7-6 (8), 7-6 (8), advancing to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Mencic hit 20 aces along the way to give the Czech team the lead, defeating veteran Pablo Carreno Busta 7-5, 6-4. Jaume Munar then defeated world No. 17 Jiri Rejeca 6-3, 6-4 to win his first Davis Cup singles title for Spain.<\/p>\n

“I was pretty confident in my tennis,” Munar said. “It didn’t matter who was in front of me. I had a lot of confidence in myself, that’s the most important thing.”<\/p>\n

The fourth-seeded Czech Republic was aiming to return to the semifinals for the first time since 2014.<\/p>\n

Germany will hold on <\/hl2> Tomas Martin Echeverry hit 23 aces and beat Jan-Renardo Struff 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7) to put Argentina ahead, but world No. 3 Alexander Zverev beat 21st-ranked Francisco Cerundro 6-4, 7-6 (3) to tie Germany.<\/p>\n

In doubles, Krawietz and Puetz won 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10), with both teams wasting match points.<\/p>\n

Argentina was aiming to advance to the semifinals for the first time since winning in 2016. Germany was a semifinalist last year.<\/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 the doubles final as Spain won 2-1 on Thursday, defeating the Czech Republic and advancing to the Davis Cup semifinals. Granolles and Martinez played in the absence of top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, a six-time Grand Slam champion who withdrew from […]<\/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":[913,4361,6146,27,1394,1815,7014,1849,1907,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-27493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cup","9":"tag-czech","10":"tag-davis","11":"tag-defeats","12":"tag-face","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-republic","15":"tag-semifinals","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493","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=27493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27493\/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=27493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}