Rafael Nadal fired hosts Spain into the Davis Cup final as he joined Feliciano L...
MADRID - Rafael Nadal fired hosts Spain into the Davis Cup final as he joined Feliciano Lopez to win a thrilling late-night doubles and seal a nail-biting 2-1 victory over Britain on Saturday.
With the semi-final on a knife edge at 1-1 after the singles were shared, Nadal and veteran Lopez came through a scintillating doubles clash against Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski, winning 7-6 7-6 to take five-time winners Spain into their first Davis Cup final since 2012. In a match of gut-wrenching tension played in front of a noisy soccer-style crowd in the 12,500-seater stadium, Nadal, 33, and Lopez, 38, squeezed out the first set on a tiebreak in which every single point felt like a drama.
Britain led 6-4 but Lopez saved the first set point with a big serve and then Nadal produced miracles to flick a lob over Murray before putting away a smash as the Scot replied with a lob. “This competition is dramatic and with this new format even more,” Nadal said on court. “It was very close. We played a great match. In the important moments Feli did everything well.Lopez was close to tears at the end and who could blame him after the tension of two dramatic hours.
Earlier, Canada’s ‘two-man team’ of Denis Shapovalov and Vasek Pospisil, who have played every rubber for Canada this week, beat Russian duo Andrey Rublev and Karen Khachanov after their semi-final also went down to the wire.
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