{"id":470844,"date":"2023-11-24T17:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T21:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470844"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T21:18:06","slug":"australia-secures-spot-in-davis-cup-final-after-superb-victory","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/australia-secures-spot-in-davis-cup-final-after-superb-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia secures spot in Davis Cup final after superb victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia have secured a spot in the Davis Cup final with a 2-0 victory over Finland on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf1f \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc06 \ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>A straight sets victory for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexdeminaur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alexdeminaur<\/a> over Ruusuvuori ensures Australia&#39;s place in the final!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavisCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DavisCup<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DavisCupFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DavisCupFinals<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BnENJaPGnm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BnENJaPGnm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1728122123791540569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alex De Minaur clinched a comfortable 6-4, 6-3 win over Emil Ruusuvuori to set up a match-up with either Serbia or Italy on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For us this cup is a priority. We do everything we can to represent Australia, with pride and passion,&#8221; said the world number 12.<\/p>\n<p>The two captains decided not to play against each other as Australia was already guaranteed a win.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will be looking to better their last year&#8217;s achievement, when they fell short at the last hurdle, losing out to Canada in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Their last win came in 2003, when Hewitt also played a pivotal role as he won his opening game to inspire them to victory against Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our boys dug really deep. We&#8217;re a tight-knit unit and we&#8217;ve given ourselves another opportunity on Sunday.&#8221; Hewitt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia have secured a spot in the Davis Cup final with a 2-0 victory over Finland on Friday. \ud83c\udf1f \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa \ud835\udc12\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc06 \ud835\udc08\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":470845,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16939,16928,19349],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18748,19870,19350],"acf":{"announce":"Lleyton Hewitt's team will be in the final for a second year running","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\/470844"}],"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=470844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470846,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470844\/revisions\/470846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470844"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470844"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}