Italy claim historic third Davis Cup title

The Italian squad again deserved a large solemnisation aft winning different Davis Cup successful Bologna. This time, the boys from Italy fought for the rubric without their biggest star, Jannik Sinner, and they besides missed Lorenzo Musetti. However, the squad has shown that they tin grip each challenges and that they person the breadth that sets them isolated from the rest.

Victory without large trumps

In the archetypal lucifer of the day, the experienced Matteo Berrettini, erstwhile sixth successful the satellite and Wimbledon finalist, played. As a existent leader, helium defeated Pablo Carreno Busta 6:3 and 6:4. The full lucifer helium seemed calm connected the service and made the quality astatine the close moment. His show erstwhile again confirmed however overmuch this awesome tennis subordinate tin rise his crippled erstwhile defending the colors of the country. They accidental that earlier this duel helium had 10 consecutive victories successful singles matches successful the Davis Cup, which speaks volumes for his character.

The 2nd duel brought a existent twist, arsenic young Flavio Cobolli, who is lone 23 years old, faced Jaume Munar successful an highly bully mood. The Spaniard initially played similar a wall, returning each shot and rapidly won the archetypal acceptable with 6:1. At the opening of the 2nd set, helium reached a interruption erstwhile again and it seemed that everything would extremity without excitement. However, past the Italian yet recovered a rhythm, regained the interruption and dilatory took the initiative.

The 2nd acceptable went into overtime, and the young combatant past showed unthinkable intelligence strength. aft a melodramatic necktie break, helium managed to triumph the 3rd section. At 5:5 successful the deciding set, helium won a caller interruption that broke everything and led Italy to its historical 3rd consecutive triumph.

The emotions were huge, arsenic confirmed by Cobolli himself, saying; "I dreamed astir this night, but present I don't cognize however I won. It was precise difficult, but we simply cannot suffer erstwhile we play for our country. I don't cognize what happened, I don't cognize wherever I am, but I cognize that I americium the satellite tennis champion."

Italy frankincense won the Davis Cup for the 4th time, and this is besides the archetypal clip they celebrated the rubric successful beforehand of their location crowd.