Davis Cup Finals - Can Italy Threepeat without Sinner?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Catherine, David & Matt preview the 2025 tennis season’s denouement - the Davis Cup Finals in Bologna, Italy.

Part One (00:00) - With Matt reporting from the ground in Bologna, the team look ahead to the first two quarter finals; France vs Belgium, and defending Champions Italy vs Austria. How will Italy cope with the absence of their two best singles players Sinner & Musetti? And can Paul Henri Mathieu complete a redemptive arc from devastating defeat as a player in the 2002 final, to captaining a winning French side in 2025?

Part Two (33:22) - A preview of the second two quarter finals; Spain vs Czechia - a tie that many think will determine the outcome of the whole competition - and Germany vs Argentina. Does David Ferrer have questions to answer and a point to prove as Spain captain? And after of years of saying he’d never play the Davis Cup in its new format, why is Alexander Zverev lining up for Germany?

Part Three (53:47) - Punchy predictions for how the week will unfold and who will be holding the trophy come Sunday.

You can keep up to date with the Davis Cup Finals on the Davis Cup Instagram, TikTok and X, you can sign up to the free official Davis Cup newsletter at Daviscup.com and you can follow all the action on the newly updated World Cup of Tennis app, which brings together the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge. Search 'World Cup of Tennis' on App Store or Play Store to download for free

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0:00.0	Hello folks, this is Catherine from the tennis podcast. It is 1130 at night here in London. We
0:08.1	finished recording our Davis Cup finals preview pod a couple of hours ago. Nice early night for us,
0:13.7	got the upload done just moments ago. And what lands on all of our phones? But the news that Carlos Alcaraz, unfortunately,
0:23.7	has had to withdraw from the Spanish team ahead of the Davis Cup finals.
0:28.2	That news just broken by Angel Garthia Munith on social media.
0:34.4	As you can imagine, Carlos Alcaraz did form quite a large part of our preview of the Davis Cup finals,
0:41.2	and that rather puts a different complexion on the week ahead.
0:46.0	David's already gone to bed.
0:47.2	Matt passes on to me that he would like to change his prediction to a checkier victory.
0:53.5	All I can say is please bear in mind that obviously the news hadn't broken at the time
0:58.6	that we recorded.
0:59.8	I promise the show is still worth listening to.
1:01.5	It's not entirely out of date.
1:03.0	There's still a very timeless rant from me about tennis players and suits that I assure
1:08.8	you is completely unmissable.
1:11.0	We'll be back on Thursday with our next show and yeah, we'll hope to have all of the salient
1:18.3	up-to-date information for you at the time of recording.
1:21.8	So sorry about that.
1:23.2	Al-Karaz out.
1:25.1	Here's the podcast.
1:38.3	Music Al Carras out. Here's the podcast. Well, hello and welcome to the tennis podcast.
1:41.1	We are back less than 24 hours after we finished our last tennis podcast.
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