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Today’s tennis mood: Intrigued with a pinch of “let it go.”
Let’s tennis!
Two Points
🎾 Day Three: With two quarterfinal ties down, we have two to go. Both — Spain vs. Czechia and Argentina vs. Germany — will be played today. The two winning teams will face each other in the semifinals on Saturday.
Team Spain: Jaume Munar, Pablo Carreno Busta. Pedro Martinez, Marcel Granollers, David Ferrer (captain)
Team Czechia: Jiri Lehecka, Jakub Mensik, Tomas Machac, Vit Kopriva, Adam Pavlasek, Tomas Berdych (captain)
Team Argentina: Francisco Cerundolo, Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Francisco Comesana, Horacio Zeballos, Andres Molteni, Javier Frana (captain)
Team Germany: Alexander Zverev, Jan-Lennard Struff, Yannick Hanfmann, Kevin Krawietz, Tim Puetz, Michael Kohlmann (captain)
🎾 Yesterday’s match: Italy made quick work of Austria in the quarterfinals of Davis Cup on Wednesday, with the two singles players doing the work. Matteo Berrettini defeated Jurij Rodionov, 6-3, 7-6. And Flavio Cobolli needed a little more than an hour to take down Filip Misolic, 6-1, 6-3.
Next: Italy faces Belgium in the semifinals on Friday.
And, that’s game.
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