Davis Cup - Semis set after doubles drama
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt discuss a dramatic few days at the Davis Cup Finals.
There’s chat about Spain coping with Carlos Alcaraz’s withdrawal, a doubles classic won by Germany against Argentina, a moment of madness from Corentin Moutet, and Italy’s homecoming as champions.
Plus, predictions for Italy vs Belgium and Spain vs Germany in the semis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast where it is a quarter past midnight UK time. |
| 0:18.7 | That is where you find me and David. And it is a quarter past one a.m. Bologna time. |
| 0:26.7 | And that is where you find Matt Roberts. It's an absurd time of night for tennis to have been happening. |
| 0:34.0 | So of course the tennis was brilliant. Those are the rules. We have just all watched |
| 0:39.5 | Tim Puts and Kevin |
| 0:41.2 | Kravitz's seal victory for Germany |
| 0:43.6 | on their fifth |
| 0:45.3 | match point in the decisive doubles |
| 0:47.5 | rubber over Argentina. |
| 0:49.9 | It's everything |
| 0:51.4 | you want from the Davis Cup |
| 0:53.1 | except that it's happening at one o'clock in the morning, Matt Roberts. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, you couldn't have said it better. |
| 1:01.3 | Obviously, the first law of post-midnight tennis |
| 1:04.6 | is that it shouldn't be happening at all. |
| 1:07.0 | And the second law of post-midnight tennis |
| 1:09.8 | is that when it happens, it it is I'm going to just |
| 1:13.3 | say it fucking amazing normally quality-wise and that's what happened today like I got on site at |
| 1:22.8 | 8.30 a.m. this morning it is quarter past one in the morning the next day, and I'm still here. |
| 1:30.4 | This was the day that the Davis Cup decided to have its deciding doubles matches, of course, |
| 1:36.7 | when we had two ties to fit in. Five of the matches today ended in straight sets, |
| 1:42.6 | and yet we still ended at 1 o'clock in the morning like |
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