{"id":36955,"date":"2024-11-24T02:17:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T23:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=36955"},"modified":"2024-11-24T02:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T23:17:26","slug":"davis-cup-sinner-leads-italy-to-final-against-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/24\/davis-cup-sinner-leads-italy-to-final-against-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Sinner Leads Italy to Final Against the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Defending champion Italy advanced to the Davis Cup final alongside the Netherlands after defeating 28-time winner Australia 2-0 in the semifinals on Saturday in M\u00e1laga, Spain.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Netherlands had shocked Germany with a 2-0 victory in the other semifinal on Friday, reaching the final for the first time in 104 years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">World No. 1 Jannik Sinner, who had never lost to Alex de Minaur in their nine previous encounters, including last year\u2019s Davis Cup final, sealed Italy\u2019s spot with a 6-3, 6-4 win in M\u00e1laga.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Matteo Berrettini had earlier given Italy the lead with a hard-fought victory over Thanasi Kokkinakis, prevailing 6-7 (6\/8), 6-3, 7-5 in two hours and 46 minutes.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sinner expressed his joy, saying, &#8220;Winning the Davis Cup last year gave me one of the best feelings ever. We are happy to return to the final. It will be a tough match, but we\u2019ll give our all.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Australia, with the second-most Davis Cup titles (28) after the United States (32), failed to keep their hopes alive for a first title since 2003, having lost in the finals of the past two editions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sinner, champion of the Australian Open, US Open, and the ATP Finals this year, now has the opportunity to crown his exceptional season with a second Davis Cup title.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Italy advanced to the Davis Cup final alongside the Netherlands after defeating 28-time winner Australia 2-0 in the semifinals on Saturday in M\u00e1laga, Spain. The Netherlands had shocked Germany with a 2-0 victory in the other semifinal on Friday, reaching the final for the first time in 104 years. World No. 1 Jannik &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36955","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\/36955","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=36955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36956,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36955\/revisions\/36956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}