{"id":394802,"date":"2022-11-26T20:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T01:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394802"},"modified":"2022-11-27T04:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T09:31:18","slug":"canada-edge-down-italy-to-reach-davis-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-edge-down-italy-to-reach-davis-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada edge down Italy to reach Davis Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Auger-Aliassime and Vasek Pospisil edged out Italians Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini 7-6(2) 7-5 in a tightly fought decisive doubles affair on Saturday as Canada booked their place in the Davis Cup final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Team Canada presented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sobeys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@sobeys<\/a> to play for the<br \/>\ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DavisCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DavisCup<\/a> Title\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian men beat the Italians 2-1 to punch their ticket for the Davis Cup Final. They will face Australia with a chance to win Canada&#39;s first ever Davis Cup Title.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Sportsnet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVASports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TVASports<\/a> Nov 27 | 7am ET <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lLM2aSmtQ3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lLM2aSmtQ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Canada (@TennisCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisCanada\/status\/1596598259170299904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Canadians will be searching for their first title in the men&#8217;s team competition when they face the 28-times champions Australia on Sunday in Malaga, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Davis Cup is always a wild week and I would say the most fun, as a player,&#8221; Pospisil said. &#8220;We got more to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, Auger-Aliassime sent over a dozen aces as he handily beat Lorenzo Musetti 6-3 6-4 to keep Canada alive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Davis Cup FINALS \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<br \/>Experiencing surreal emotions with the team \ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffd\u2764\ufe0f Energy is at an all time high and we are more than ready to leave everything out there one.more.time. <\/p>\n<p>LET\u2019S GOO\ud83d\udc4a\ud83c\udffd<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 : Martin Sidorjak\/Tennis Canada | Fran Santiago <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tEQSDkd6fz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tEQSDkd6fz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; F\u00e9lix AugerAliassime (@felixtennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/felixtennis\/status\/1596632115487150080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew coming this week that we could make some changes depending on how singles went and I just feel like the whole team connected around this idea and there was no ego in the wrong places,&#8221; said Auger-Aliassime, who was brought in as a last-minute substitution on the doubles team after compatriot Denis Shapovalov lost earlier in the day to Lorenzo Sonego 7-6(4) 6-7(5) 6-4 in a physically punishing marathon match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody just has the clear idea of the main goal, which is lifting the cup tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/battling-australia-storm-into-davis-cup-final\/\">Australia advanced to the final<\/a> for the first time in 19 years after a 2-1 victory over Croatia on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Canadian Golden Era \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@tenniscanada<\/a> made their Davis Cup Final debut, three years later, they&#39;re in it AGAIN \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\/felixtennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@felixtennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VasekPospisil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@VasekPospisil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/laTAtjXDbe\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/laTAtjXDbe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Davis Cup (@DavisCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavisCup\/status\/1596598745940230145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Auger-Aliassime and Vasek Pospisil edged out Italians Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini 7-6(2) 7-5 in a tightly fought decisive doubles affair on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394806,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16943,16928,16944],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Canadians will be searching for their first title in the men's team competition against Australia","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\/394802"}],"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=394802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394802"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394802"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}