{"id":394772,"date":"2022-11-24T00:16:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394772"},"modified":"2022-11-24T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T16:35:50","slug":"croatia-reach-davis-cup-semi-finals-for-sixth-time","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/croatia-reach-davis-cup-semi-finals-for-sixth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia reach Davis Cup semi-finals for sixth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marin Cilic rallied to clinch a 5-7 6-3 7-6 (5) victory over Spain&#8217;s Pablo Carreno Busta in a three-hour match on Wednesday and send two-times champions Croatia into the Davis Cup semi-finals for a sixth time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf7 Croatia march into the semi-finals \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DavisCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DavisCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/byRakuten?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#byRakuten<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Final8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Final8<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hts_sluzbeni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@hts_sluzbeni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o7bhLen13K\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/o7bhLen13K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Davis Cup (@DavisCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavisCup\/status\/1595528641974538241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Croatia reached the final four after a 2-0 win after Borna Coric had earlier given his side the lead with a 6-4 7-6(4) win over Roberto Bautista Agut.<\/p>\n<p>Croatia, who finished runner-up to Russia in last year&#8217;s Davis Cup final, will play Australia in semi-final action on Friday in Malaga.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an incredible effort by the team,&#8221; the 2014 U.S. Open winner Cilic, who fired 20 aces, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a great privilege and honor to bring another point for the team Croatia and seal the win against the always strong Spanish team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What. 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Match \ud83e\udd29<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cilic_marin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cilic_marin<\/a> secures a remarkable 5-7 6-3 7-6(5) victory to move Croatia into the semi-finals \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DavisCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DavisCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/byRakuten?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#byRakuten<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Final8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Final8<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hts_sluzbeni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@hts_sluzbeni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1V6wmlEBSB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1V6wmlEBSB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Davis Cup (@DavisCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavisCup\/status\/1595521260615704578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2018 Coric and Cilic were both part of the Croatian team that won their second Davis Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the big stage, I like the big crowd,&#8221; Coric said in front of 7,500 noisy fans. &#8220;It gives me an extra motivation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, I felt very, very well on the serve and I think in the end that&#8217;s what made the difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joining a legend \ud83d\ude0e<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/borna_coric?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@borna_coric<\/a> ties <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AncicMario?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AncicMario<\/a> in 4th on Croatia\u2019s all-time leaders with his 13th singles victory<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DavisCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DavisCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/byRakuten?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#byRakuten<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Final8?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Final8<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hts_sluzbeni?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@hts_sluzbeni<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ItT5imbMAt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ItT5imbMAt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Davis Cup (@DavisCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavisCup\/status\/1595469746539053068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marin Cilic rallied to clinch a 5-7 6-3 7-6 (5) victory over Spain&#8217;s Pablo Carreno Busta in a three-hour match on Wednesday and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394776,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16929,16928,16927],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Croats beat hosts Spain 2-0 in Malaga ","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394772"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394772"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}