{"id":394795,"date":"2022-11-26T04:35:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394795"},"modified":"2022-11-26T04:36:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T09:36:04","slug":"battling-australia-storm-into-davis-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/battling-australia-storm-into-davis-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Battling Australia storm into Davis Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>28-times winners Australia outclassed Croatia 2-1 in the Spanish city of Malaga to reach their first Davis Cup final in 19 years on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\ufe0f\u20e39\ufe0f\u20e3 YEARS LATER!<\/p>\n<p>Australia defeat Croatia 2-1 to book their place in the Final for the first time since 2003 \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\/TennisAustralia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TennisAustralia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bBhMiHOv9A\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bBhMiHOv9A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Davis Cup (@DavisCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavisCup\/status\/1596258053619585024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lleyton Hewitt&#8217;s team lost the first singles but recovered in style with the doubles pair battling back from a set down in the decider.<\/p>\n<p>Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson clinched the winning point with a 6-7(3) 7-5 6-4 win over Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic in a clash that was nearly a rematch of the Wimbledon doubles final until a late player switch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so proud. Australia has a really rich history in this competition,&#8221; said Hewitt, who played a record 43 Davis Cup ties for Australia from 1999 to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been fortunate to win it all on a number of occasions a long time ago. And I know what it meant to me as a player to play a final, and I am glad these guys can play it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Borna Coric put Croatia 1-0 up by defeating Thanasi Kokkinakis, who struck 11 aces, 6-4, 6-3, but Alex De Minaur leveled after beating Marin Cilic 6-2, 6-2 to send it to the doubles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is what this team is about, that never-say-die attitude,&#8221; De Minaur said.<\/p>\n<p>Canada will face Italy on Saturday in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28-times winners Australia outclassed Croatia 2-1 in the Spanish city of Malaga to reach their first Davis Cup final in 19 years on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394796,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16939,16929,16940,16927],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Australia reach the final for the first time since 2003","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\/394795"}],"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=394795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394795"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394795"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}