Davis Cup - Italy vs. Spain final; Who needs Sinneraz?

The Tennis Podcast

David Law

Tennis, Wimbledon, Sports, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Davis Cup Final for 2025 is set, and even though Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are not there, it still features Italy and Spain!

Part One

00.00 General euphoria from Catherine, David and Matt after a brilliant couple of semifinals ensured that Italy and Spain would meet in the Davis Cup title. There’s a blow-by-blow account of how and why we’re now all ‘Cobolli guys’, his incredible tie-break against Zizou Bergs, and the beautiful friendship between the younger Italian and his team partner Matteo Berrettini.

Part Two

31.00 Spain vs. Germany went down to the doubles and what a battle that was. The trio talk about how the absence of Alcaraz and Sinner (and Lorenzo Musetti) has enabled Pedro Martinez, Pablo Carreno Busta, Matteo Berrettini and Flavio Cobolli to shine.

Part Three

41.17 Punchy predictions are called for a delivered ahead of the Davis Cup final. Who are we all going for?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast.
0:13.0	It is Saturday night and we come to you on the eve of the final day of the 2025 tennis season.
0:21.6	A day that will see a Davis Cup final between Spain and Italy.
0:26.6	It's Cynaraz without Yannick Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz.
0:31.6	And that is a pretty fascinating prospect.
0:35.6	David and I are here battling the onset of British winter.
0:40.7	Our struggle is very real, David.
0:43.5	Yes, yes.
0:44.3	I've been coaching my son's football match today,
0:48.2	which was abandoned in the freezing cold and rain
0:50.7	because it was unplayable.
0:52.6	So that was lovely.
0:55.3	And yet, and yet I have been warmed up by what I've seen in this Davis Cup.
1:01.3	It is bizarre to have this line up for the final without the two people that we expected to be talking about in it.
1:09.4	But even though that may reduce the number of headlines, it's meant that the storylines have
1:15.5	been perhaps more fun and more fascinating, the actual matches themselves, the unknowns.
1:20.8	It's been great, actually.
1:23.6	Yeah, scale of 1 to 10, Matt, in the 48 hours since we were last podcasting, how much fun have you had out there in Bologna?
1:31.6	It's been so much fun. I'm not going to lie. I think yesterday we were at a 10 during the Koboli Berg's tie break, which I'm sure we're going to talk all about.
1:43.4	And then today didn't quite hit those heights, but still a very, very intriguing,
1:51.4	fun tie between Spain and Germany.
1:55.0	And yeah, I've been, I've been ruminating a lot on the whole Al-Qa-a-a- Sinha of it all, because, you know, that is the ultimate in men's tennis right now, Al-Carras-Sinner, and I'm not going to lie.
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