The Spanish team in this Davis Cup was doubly baptized on social networks, and embraced shortly after by its members. They were called ‘the Spain of the forgotten’, and they went to win ‘the Davis of the people’. These names, arising from the usual sarcasm of the networks, contain a background in which the attitude of this team is valuedfar from the typical individualities of tennis and strengthened by the union of its components, all of them workers within this sport to whom no one has given anything. They permeated the team led by David Ferrer some traits that they never gave up: struggle, capacity for suffering, resilience in the face of adversity, and, above all, a lot of faith.
No one believed as much as they did, and that attitude led them to achieve feats that seemed unattainable. It could also be called ‘the Selection of miracles’, which happened one after another until the World Cup final, in which one last task was missing. The road to playing the duel for the title was long and full of potholes and setbacks.. It started in February, in Biel (Swiss), where it was a process to beat the hosts in a tie in which they were Pedro Martínez y Jaume Munarwhich no longer dropped from the rest of the calls, in addition to Roberto Carballés y Martin Landaluce.
It was a mirage to overcome a qualifying round with ease. Starting in September, the sinuous curves arrived. In Roman Bridge (Marbella), Ferrer could not count on Carlos Alcaraz, Marcel Granllers y Alexander Davidovichwho dropped out of the call due to fatigue US Open. A ‘Spain B’, con Pablo Carreno joining Munar, Martínez and Carballés, he closed the first day against the Denmark of Holger Rune with 0-2, one point away from elimination. Critical was the situation when Pedro saved a match point against the Danish number one. Finally, and for the first time in the history of Spanish tennis, the worst result you can start with was turned aroundand the victory sealed the ticket to Bologna.
It wasn’t easy in the north either. Italia. In the quarterfinals, they went back to Czechiathe most complete team of all, and in the semifinals the Germany of Alexander Zverev. Just one more miracle was missing.
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