{"id":27948,"date":"2025-11-22T16:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/granolles-and-martinez-help-spain-reach-davis-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:02:38","slug":"granolles-and-martinez-help-spain-reach-davis-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/granolles-and-martinez-help-spain-reach-davis-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Granolles and Martinez help Spain reach Davis Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BOLOGNA, Italy &#8212; Spain advanced to the Davis Cup final on Saturday thanks to the doubles pairing of Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martinez, defeating Germany&#8217;s Tim Puetz and Kevin Krawietz 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>After Pablo Carreno Busta&#8217;s goal gave Spain a winning start against Jan-Lennard Struff, Alexander Zverev kept the German team&#8217;s hopes alive with a 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5) win over Jaume Munar. Carreno Busta saved five consecutive set points in the tiebreak to defeat the German veteran 6-4, 7-6 (6).<\/p>\n<p>However, Granolles and Martinez shocked P\u00fctz and Krawietz with only their second loss in Davis Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish team, without number one Carlos Alcaraz due to injury, advanced to the finals for the first time in six years.<\/p>\n<p>Spain will face back-to-back champions Italy, who defeated Belgium on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOLOGNA, Italy &#8212; Spain advanced to the Davis Cup final on Saturday thanks to the doubles pairing of Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martinez, defeating Germany&#8217;s Tim Puetz and Kevin Krawietz 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the semifinals. After Pablo Carreno Busta&#8217;s goal gave Spain a winning start against Jan-Lennard Struff, Alexander Zverev kept the German team&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[913,6146,63,7105,6964,197,1907,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-27948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cup","9":"tag-davis","10":"tag-final","11":"tag-granolles","12":"tag-martinez","13":"tag-reach","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948","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=27948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}