Italy is out of the Davis Cup . The Azzurri lost the semifinal against Canada, which will thus go on to challenge Australia in the grand final. Decisive, negative this time, double.
The Azzurri's day in Malaga starts well, with Sonego imposing himself on the more popular Shapovalov at the end of a three and a quarter hour battle: 7-6, 6-7, 6-4 the score in favor of the Azzurri who already he had given us the first point in the quarterfinals against the USA.
Bad instead Lorenzo Musetti, who crashes in the second singles to Auger Aliassime: 6-3, 6-4 in one hour and 26 minutes.
Everything is decided in the doubles and Italy – which has already been unable to field its best singles players, Sinner and Berrettini – also loses Bolelli due to an injury which proves to be fatal . In fact, in his place is Matteo Berrettini, who is not a double player and is not at his best, given that he hadn't competed due to injury for over a month ( "I can play on one leg", he said, joining the blue expedition in extremis ).
Therefore, the great pair Bolelli-Fognini, who had easily defeated the strong Americans and can also boast a Grand Slam victory in his career, is not there. However, the Azzurri go ahead by a break in the first set, but in spite of a great Fognini all the rust from Matteo Berrettini can be seen. The Canadians come back and win at the tie break 7-2. In the second set the Azzurri immediately ahead 2-0 and immediately resumed, Fognini also drops at a distance and Canada imposes itself with the Pospisil-Auger Aliassime duo: 7-6, 7-5 in two hours and 3 minutes of the match .
