{"id":18398,"date":"2024-02-04T22:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T03:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/argentina-advances-to-davis-cup-finals-group-stage\/04\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T22:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T03:16:16","slug":"argentina-advances-to-davis-cup-finals-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/argentina-advances-to-davis-cup-finals-group-stage\/04\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina advances to Davis Cup finals group stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>ROSARIO, Argentina &#8212; Argentina reached the Davis Cup finals group stage by eliminating Kazakhstan 3-2 in the best-of-five-match qualifying round when <a data-player-guid=\"4a7076f7-cfe4-643a-afe8-096a1194d408\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sebastian Baez<\/a> erased two match points and came back to edge <a data-player-guid=\"f1b4dd84-9588-5db6-42d3-235d8c9e6f95\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dmitry Popko<\/a> 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium, the Czech Republic and France also wrapped up victories, while Chile and Peru were in action at night.<\/p>\n<p>Baez is a 23-year-old who is ranked a career-high No. 25. He reached the third round of the Australian Open last month before losing to eventual champion <a data-player-guid=\"431a1bce-57de-2a02-8022-9f32b0f60efb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jannik Sinner<\/a>. Popko, 27, is ranked No. 338 and has failed in 16 attempts to qualify for a Grand Slam tournament.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Popko was in position to get Kazakhstan past 2016 Davis Cup champion Argentina, just one point away from winning while ahead 6-4 in the concluding tiebreaker. But from there, Baez grabbed the match&#8217;s last four points.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium clinched its spot in the next round with a 3-1 victory over Croatia that was sealed when <a data-player-guid=\"f64b5d97-6080-dfef-5cda-95fb7375d278\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Zizou Bergs<\/a> beat <a data-player-guid=\"496543dd-57a6-37e2-a9f7-b9a147eb750d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=7887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Duje Ajdukovic<\/a> 6-1, 7-5 on Sunday. Bergs also won the opening singles match Saturday against 2014 US Open champion <a data-player-guid=\"d24f948a-481d-75c9-9c3c-855364317760\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marin \u010cili\u0107<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech Republic eliminated Israel 4-0, and France beat Taiwan by the same score.<\/p>\n<p>Seven nations made it through qualifying in series that wrapped up Friday or Saturday: the United States, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Netherlands and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>The dozen countries that advanced this week will join reigning champion Italy, 2023 runner-up Australia and wild-card entries Britain and Spain in the 16-team, four-city Finals group stage in September. Then eight of those teams will make it to the quarterfinals in Malaga, Spain, in November, when a champion will be determined.<\/p>\n<p>One tier below, in the World Group I playoffs, India won 4-0 at Pakistan, while two-time Grand Slam runner-up <a data-player-guid=\"eeae43af-cdf0-43b4-7dd4-2475555a445e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> helped Greece get past visiting Romania 4-0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39460766\/argentina-advances-davis-cup-finals-group-stage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROSARIO, Argentina &mdash; Argentina reached the Davis Cup finals group stage by eliminating Kazakhstan 3-2 in the best-of-five-match qualifying round when Sebastian<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/argentina-advances-to-davis-cup-finals-group-stage\/04\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1016,1132,45,44,46,467,2645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18400,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398\/revisions\/18400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}