{"id":8258,"date":"2023-11-27T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/italy-sweeps-australia-in-singles-wins-second-davis-cup\/27\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T04:02:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:02:00","slug":"italy-sweeps-australia-in-singles-wins-second-davis-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/italy-sweeps-australia-in-singles-wins-second-davis-cup\/27\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy sweeps Australia in singles, wins second Davis Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MALAGA, Spain &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> capped his perfect week by leading Italy to its first Davis Cup title in nearly five decades.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner took his record to 5-0 this week by beating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alex De Mi\u00f1aur<\/a> 6-3, 6-0 in the second singles match of Sunday&#8217;s final, giving Italy a 2-0 win over Australia for its first Davis Cup title since 1976.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matteo Arnaldi<\/a> had given Italy the first point with a 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 win over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alexei Popyrin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 4 Sinner beat top-ranked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the singles and doubles matches in Saturday&#8217;s semifinal showdown against Serbia.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38976511\/novak-djokovic-21-match-davis-cup-win-streak-comes-end\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38936127\/novak-djokovic-iga-swiatek-coco-gauff-ben-shelton-top-tennis-players-moments-2023\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img style=\"display:block\" class=\"lazyload\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=75&resize=75 75w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=100&resize=100 100w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=150&resize=150 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=240&resize=240 240w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=320&resize=320 320w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=500&resize=500 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=640&resize=640 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=800&resize=800 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1024&resize=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1280&resize=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1600&resize=1600 1600w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The 22-year-old Italian needed 1 hour, 21 minutes to seal Italy&#8217;s victory against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all very young. We are really hungry to try to win it one more time for our life, but having this feeling at least once, it is a really special feeling,&#8221; said Sinner, who has beaten nine top-10 players since September, though he lost to Djokovic in the ATP Tour Finals a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Arnaldi earlier saved eight break points before getting a break of his own to close out the first match in the decisive third set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I won one of the most important matches of my life,&#8221; the 44th-ranked Arnaldi said.<\/p>\n<p>The Italians, who had never won the title other than in 1976, had lost the three finals it played against Australia, which was last year&#8217;s runner-up to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Australia eliminated Finland in the last four this year. The Aussies are 28-time champions but haven&#8217;t lifted the trophy at men&#8217;s tennis top team event since captain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lleyton Hewitt<\/a> was on the winning squad as a player in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been another nation that&#8217;s gone back-to-back in the last two years, so we are showing a pretty good effort collectively,&#8221; De Mi\u00f1aur said. &#8220;We are very, very close. It stinks like hell. We&#8217;ll be back. We&#8217;ll get this. I mean, we&#8217;ve got a very, very strong future ahead of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Australia this year became just the second nation to win 200 Davis Cup ties, with the United States being the other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matteo Berrettini<\/a> was not in the Italian team because of an injury but he was in Malaga supporting his countrymen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to Matteo,&#8221; Sinner said. &#8220;He has had a very tough year (with) a lot of injuries. For all of us, that he came here, it means a lot. He gave us a lot of positive energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The final 8 of the Davis Cup Finals will stay in Malaga for another year, after Spain was awarded a wild card Sunday for the group stage in Valencia.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s finalists, Italy and Australia, also go straight through to the group stage in September. So does Great Britain, which lost to Serbia in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup Finals will remain in the southern Spanish city of Seville next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38985069\/italy-sweeps-australia-singles-wins-second-davis-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MALAGA, Spain &mdash; Jannik Sinner capped his perfect week by leading Italy to its first Davis Cup title in nearly five decades.<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/italy-sweeps-australia-in-singles-wins-second-davis-cup\/27\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13918,"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":[1312,45,44,197,658,3172,508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258"}],"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=8258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8260,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions\/8260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}