Another triumph for Italian tennis: the Azzurri win the Davis Cup for the third consecutive time and make history.
In the final in Bologna, Spain was beaten 3-0 with singles victories by Matteo Berrettini over Carreno Busta (6-3 6-4) and by Flavio Cobolli, who came from behind to win 2-1 over Jaume Munar (1-6, 7-6, 7-5).
President Binaghi was elated, having sounded the charge the day before: " We're winning to give Pietrangeli strength ." Immediately after the victory, he commented: "Sinner was right. He said we didn't need him because we had a great team. And that's exactly what happened."
This is the fourth time Italy has won the Davis Cup in its history, 49 years after their first success in 1976 in Chile. Without the Martian Jannik, the new generation of phenomena has found in the more earthly Matteo Berrettini and Flavio Cobolli, the former redemptionist in his maturity and the latter in his breakthrough, the idols of an exciting escalation, in the stadium-like celebration that took place in the arena at the Bologna fair in support of the national team.
And the lesson is that you can win, and you do win, even without the South Tyrolean and without the other big name withdrawing, Lorenzo Musetti.
In Bologna, Filippo Volandri's national team didn't concede a single match to their opponents: against Austria, Belgium, and finally Spain, there was never a need for doubles to close out the game.
