0-1: Spain, on the ropes after the defeat of debutant Zapata

Spain has felt the problems ever since Carlos Alcaraz announced that he will miss the Davis Cup, physically and mentally exhausted as he closes his summer tour losing in the semifinals of the US Open against Daniel Medvedev.

The absences of the injured were noted Rafael Nadal and Pablo Carreñoas well as unknown about the form of Roberto Bautista, who has been out of the circuit for several weeks with an ankle injury. The man from Castellón, even in Valencia, doesn’t feel ready yet.

David Ferrer had to entrust his debut as Davis Cup captain to two debutants, Bernabé Zapata, and Alejandro Davidovichthe latter is a rookie in singles, not in competition since he played doubles in Spain-Romania in 2022.

shoes opened his record with a loss against Tomas Macac, 6-4 and 6-4 in 1h.32′. Spain started the tie with the Czech Republic down (0-1), left at the hands of Davidovich’s response, against Jiri Leheckaand double.

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The Valencian Zapata crashed into a wall in the Pavilion of Fuente de San Luis, in the capital of Turia. At 26 years old, world No. 75, he has not corrected his course this season on the hard court. Semifinalists in the land of Buenos Aires and Rio, however they struggled to accumulate their eighth loss in nine matches.

The initial rest the Spaniard suffered did not help him calm his nerves. It gave more consistency to a Macac that last weekend reached the final of an ATP Challenger on this surface, which corresponds to the Davis Cup.

At 22 years old, ranked 119th in the world, he achieved his fifth Davis Cup singles victory, with only one loss. In his balance, victory over the British Dan Evans or Richard Gasquet.

There was shoes an option to recover the ‘break’ in the sixth game, but it was ruled out monkey, always know what I have to do, very comfortable. The Central European did not offer any more concessions. Another break in the seventh game, and a decidedly lopsided encounter.

The first two in this Group C will go to the Finals in Malaga. Serbia opened with a 3-0 victory over South Korea, still without a Novak Djokovic who arrived this Wednesday, thinking about Spain-Serbia on Friday.

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