BOLOGNA, Italy — Flavio Cobolli beat Filip Misolic 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday to clinch a 2-0 victory for two-time defending champion Italy over Austria and arrange a Davis Cup semifinal towards Belgium.
Cobolli sealed his dominant victory with a service winner after 65 minutes to please the house crowd.
The semifinal is scheduled for Friday.
Italy has received 12 straight Davis Cup ties since its final loss, to Canada within the finals group stage in 2023.
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Earlier, Italy’s Matteo Berrettini beat Jurij Rodionov 6-3, 7-6 (4).
Berrettini was 5-2 down within the second set earlier than coming again with a break in ninth recreation. He saved three set factors towards his 177th-ranked opponent within the following recreation and prevailed within the tiebreaker by changing his first match level.
Ties are performed as a best-of-three matches, so the doubles was not performed.
High-ranked Italy is in search of the third straight title and fourth general.
4-time Grand Slam champion Jannik Sinner, who led Italy to titles in 2023 and 2024, opted to sit down out the Davis Cup remaining this season.
Austria, ranked No. 12, has crushed Italy solely as soon as of their earlier six encounters — within the 1990 quarterfinals in Vienna, its finest consequence within the group competitors.
The Davis Cup Remaining 8 in Bologna is the sixth version of the revamped occasion that has the champion determined at a impartial web site.
No. 1-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, the six-time Grand Slam champion who’s coming off a runner-up end to Sinner on the ATP Finals in Turin on Sunday, withdrew with a hamstring harm.
Spain will tackle the No. 4-seeded Czech Republic and No. 2 Germany will play Argentina within the final two quarterfinals Thursday.
