{"id":590275,"date":"2025-11-24T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:48:21","slug":"italy-beat-spain-to-win-third-straight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/590275\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Beat Spain To Win Third Straight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Italy<\/p>\n

Italian tennis team members hold the Davis Cup trophy after the final between Italy and Spain, in Bologna, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. (AP Photo\/Luca Bruno)<\/p>\n

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved<\/p>\n

Matteo Berrettini and Flavio Cobolli won their singles matches to guide Italy to their third consecutive Davis Cup triumph, as the team beat Spain 2-0 in the best-of-three tie in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

Playing in front of a raucous home crowd in Bologna, Berrettini handed Italy the perfect start by beating Spain\u2019s Pablo Carreno Busta 6-3, 6-4 before Cobolli registered a comeback victory over Jaume Munar, defeating him 1-6, 7-6(5), 7-5. <\/p>\n

The victories gave Italy an unassailable 2-0 lead over six-time champions Spain, ensuring the Italians become the first team to win three consecutive Davis Cup titles in more than 50 years. The last country to achieve the feat was the United States (1968-72).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the third consecutive one. I\u2019m crying,\u201d Italy\u2019s coach Filippo Volandri said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t cry for the first one. It\u2019s unbelievable. This is a big, big team. Some of them not even here: [Jannik] Sinner<\/a>, [Lorenzo] Musetti, and [Matteo] Arnaldi.\u201d<\/p>\n

Italy, who played without World No. 2 Sinner<\/a> and World No. 8 Musetti, now have four Davis Cup titles overall, following victories in 1976, 2024, and 2023. <\/p>\n

Cobolli, who recovered from dropping seven of the first eight games in his match, said it was \u201cimpossible to describe” his feelings after they sealed victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI dreamed a lot for this night. I played an amazing match today. I don\u2019t know how I won. The match was tough,\u201d Cobolli said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot lose for our country. Sometimes you learn, but you never lose. If you give all you have in your heart … I don’t know what I did today. I don’t know where I am. The only thing I know is that I’m world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Italy, who defeated former champions Czechia and Germany enroute to the final, are also the first non Grand Slam nation to win the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup titles in the same season on multiple occasions, following the U.S. and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian tennis team members hold the Davis Cup trophy after the final between Italy and Spain, in Bologna,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[145132,186044,186040,127468,186042,145137,2000,299,186041,185997,186043,104,1068],"class_list":{"0":"post-590275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-2025-davis-cup","9":"tag-2025-davis-cup-finals","10":"tag-cobolli-vs-munar","11":"tag-davis-cup-2025","12":"tag-davis-cup-final-result","13":"tag-davis-cup-finals","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-flavio-tennis","17":"tag-italy-davis-cup","18":"tag-italy-wins-davis-cup","19":"tag-spain","20":"tag-tennis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115603341717699311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590275","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=590275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}