{"id":36772,"date":"2024-11-22T03:14:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T00:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=36772"},"modified":"2024-11-22T03:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T00:14:25","slug":"davis-cup-with-experience-ebden-and-thompson-lead-australia-to-the-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/22\/davis-cup-with-experience-ebden-and-thompson-lead-australia-to-the-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Davis Cup&#8221;: With Experience&#8230; Ebden and Thompson Lead Australia to the Semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Australia secured a spot in the Davis Cup tennis semifinals after the duo Matthew Ebden and Jordan Thompson clinched the decisive match against the American team on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Reuters, the Australian pair defeated Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton 6-4, 6-4, advancing to the semifinals for the third consecutive time.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Despite the pre-match predictions favoring the USA\u2014considering the face-off involved the two most successful teams in the tournament&#8217;s history\u2014Australian player Thanasi Kokkinakis overcame Shelton 6-1, 4-6, 7-6 in the first singles match, saving four match points. Taylor Fritz, ranked fourth in the world, then leveled the score with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Alex de Minaur, leaving the doubles match to decide the outcome. The experienced Ebden and Thompson ultimately secured the win for Australia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Australia now awaits the winner of the Italy vs. Argentina match, set to take place later today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia secured a spot in the Davis Cup tennis semifinals after the duo Matthew Ebden and Jordan Thompson clinched the decisive match against the American team on Thursday. According to Reuters, the Australian pair defeated Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton 6-4, 6-4, advancing to the semifinals for the third consecutive time. Despite the pre-match predictions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36773,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36772\/revisions\/36773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}