{"id":589460,"date":"2025-11-23T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589460\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:06:19","slug":"italy-wins-davis-cup-for-third-straight-year-by-beating-spain-in-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/589460\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy wins Davis Cup for third straight year by beating Spain in final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/imageRedirect\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Matteo Berrettini, front, celebrates after Italy&#8217;s Flavio Cobolli winning a Davis Cup final singles tennis match against Spain&#8217;s Jaume Munar, in Bologna, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo\/Luca Bruno)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNov 23, 2025 | 12:26 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) \u2014 Italy remains the king of the Davis Cup \u2013 and didn\u2019t even need Jannik Sinner this time.<\/p>\n<p>Matteo Berrettini and Flavio Cobolli were the stars for the Italians without the absent Sinner, both winning their singles matches to earn an unassailable 2-0 lead over Spain in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fourth Davis Cup title for Italy, and a third in a row. The last nation to win three straight titles was the United States, which won five on the bounce from 1968-72.<\/p>\n<p>The second-ranked Sinner, who led Italy to men\u2019s tennis biggest team trophy the past two years, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jannik-sinner-davis-cup-82a94a5bd35152e4b4a3140a83ec3c37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opted out<\/a> of playing this week, preferring to prepare for next season instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Matteo Berrettini, front, celebrates after Italy&#8217;s Flavio Cobolli winning a Davis Cup final singles tennis match against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-589460","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-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115601053258076734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589460","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=589460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}