{"id":514791,"date":"2025-10-20T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514791\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:16:10","slug":"sinner-opts-out-of-davis-cup-alcaraz-to-represent-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/514791\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner opts out of Davis Cup, Alcaraz to represent Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner has decided not to take part in this year\u2019s Davis Cup Finals with reigning champion Italy confirming his absence in Monday\u2019s team announcement, while world number one Carlos Alcaraz will represent Spain at next month\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner, ranked number two in the world, led Italy to a successful defence of its title last year in Spain, but will not be on home soil when the Final 8 takes place in Bologna from November 18-23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJannik Sinner has not given his availability for 2025,\u201d Italian captain Filippo Volandri said.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/tennis\/daniil-medvedev-wins-atp-250-title-first-in-2-years-kazakhstan-updates\/article70183085.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Medvedev wins first title in over two years in Kazakhstan<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Davis Cup is, and will remain, always his home and I am sure that Jannik will soon be part of the team again. In the meantime, I can count on a group ready to fight and give everything for the blue jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volandri\u2019s team is made up of Matteo Berrettini, Simone Bolelli, Flavio Cobolli, Lorenzo Musetti and Andrea Vavassori.<\/p>\n<p>Sinner, who won the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year and reached the final of all four Grand Slams, will be in Turin a week before the Davis Cup to defend his ATP Finals title, where Alcaraz has also secured his place in the season-ending event.<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz will be bidding to earn Spain its first Davis Cup success since 2019, with Jaume Munar, Pedro Martinez, and Marcel Granollers also selected by the Spaniards.<\/p>\n<p>World number three Alexander Zverev is set to make his first appearance at the Davis Cup Finals, with the 28-year-old named on the Germany team.<\/p>\n<p>DAVIS CUP FINAL 8 DRAW (prefix denotes seed)<\/p>\n<p>\nQuarter-Final 1: 1-Italy v Austria\n<\/p>\n<p>\nQuarter-Final 2: 3-France v Belgium\n<\/p>\n<p>\nQuarter-Final 3: Spain v 4-Czech Republic\n<\/p>\n<p>\nQuarter-Final 4: Argentina v 2-Germany\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Oct 20, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jannik Sinner has decided not to take part in this year\u2019s Davis Cup Finals with reigning champion Italy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,168173,168169,168172,70866,168170,168171,104,5838,49765],"class_list":{"0":"post-514791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-jannik-sinner-latest-news-updates","11":"tag-sinner-davis-cup","12":"tag-sinner-latest-news-updates","13":"tag-sinner-news","14":"tag-sinner-out-of-davis-cup","15":"tag-sinner-updates","16":"tag-spain","17":"tag-tennis-news","18":"tag-tennis-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115407394219239555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}