The Canadian team of Davis cup qualified this Saturday for the end of 2022 with a 2-1 win over Italia and with Happy Auger-Also as the main executor, by winning his individual match and being recalled minutes later to play the doubles instead of Denis Shapovalov.
with the victory of Auger-Aliassime and Vasek Pospisil about Fabio Fognini and Matteo Berettini, who also entered the doubles at the last minute without having premiered before in Malaga, by 7-6 (2) and 7-5, the point was added to the one that had previously won the number 6 in the world to Lorenzo Musetti (6-3 y 6-4) y Canada certified the pass to the final on Sunday against Australia. He had lost the first individual match Shapovalov ante Lorenzo Sonego by 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5) and 6-4.
The team of Australiathe second with the most victories in the history of the competition, reached the final of the Davis for the first time since 2003, after defeating in the semifinals Croatia for 2-1 with Alex de Minaur and the doubles Max Purcell-Jordan Thompson as architects of the triumph.
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In the individual match that opened the semifinal, the Croatian Borna Coric defeated Thanassi Kokkinakis by 6-4 and 6-3. The second clash brought the victory of Alex de Minaur on Marin Cilic by 6-2 and 6-2. The tiebreaker match between the doubles was taken by Purcell and Thompson against Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic by 6-7 (3), 7-5 and 6-4.
The Australians reach the final for the forty-eighth time. In 2003 they obtained the last of their 28 titles by beating Spain 3-1 in Melbourne with a team that included the current captain, Lleyton Hewitt.Canada He has never won the Davis Cup. He will play his second final, after the one he lost in 2019 in Madrid against spainin the premiere of the current format of the Davis. Canadians and Australians have faced each other ten times in this competition, with a clear 9-1 advantage for the ‘aussies’ in those antecedents.
