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Davis Cup Finals 8 2025 Start Time – Italy vs. Spain Davis Cup 2025 Final Preview, Start Time and Where to Watch

Italy and Spain battle in Bologna with history, momentum and legacy on the line.

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Italy and Spain meet on Sunday in Bologna for their first-ever Davis Cup Final battle, renewing a rivalry that returns after 19 years and carries historic weight. The nations face off for the 14th time, with three matches on the schedule (two singles and a deciding doubles if needed) as Italy chases a third straight title and Spain fights for a seventh overall.

The 2x defending champs vs the 7x former champs 🇮🇹⚔️🇪🇸

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Davis Cup Finals 2025 Italy vs Spain – Preview

This long-running rivalry stretches back to 1932, and while Italy leads the overall head-to-head 7-6, Spain has claimed the last three ties between them. Sunday marks their first encounter under the current best-of-three format and their first Final meeting. The captains themselves, Filippo Volandri and David Ferrer, were on opposite sides the last time the nations met in 2006.

Italy’s route to the Final has been crisp. They swept Austria 2-0 in quarterfinals and repeated that scoreline against Belgium in Friday’s semi-final. Matteo Berrettini handled Raphael Collignon in straight sets, then Flavio Cobolli edged Zizou Bergs in a deciding-set tiebreak that finished 17-15, the sixth-longest in Davis Cup history. Both players held seven match points in a match defined by tension rather than flow.

Spain are into the #DavisCup Final 8 Final! 🇪🇸

They take the doubles to win the tie 2-1 and set up a showdown with the reigning champions 👏 pic.twitter.com/HaUzKnbWLm
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Spain’s path required more grit. They edged Czechia 2-1, then battled past Germany 2-1 in semifinals. Pablo Carreno Busta defeated Jan-Lennard Struff in straight sets, climbing out of a 1-6 hole in the second-set tiebreak to win 6-4 7-6(6). Jaume Munar pushed Alexander Zverev in two tight sets but fell 7-6(2) 7-6(5), pushing the tie into doubles. Marcel Granollers and Pedro Martinez responded with a clutch victory over Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz, snapping the Germans’ eight-match Davis Cup doubles streak.

Davis Cup Finals 2025 Italy vs Spain – Start Time and Where To Watch

The Final Italy vs. Spain match starts at 15:00 CET (14:00 GMT / 9:00 ET) on Sunday, 23 November. It will follow the same format as the other ties in the Davis Cup Final 8 in Bologna, with two singles matches and a doubles match if required to decide the title.

Globally, the match is also available on the official Davis Cup streaming platform, video.daviscup.com (subject to regional restrictions), and internationally on broadcasters like the Tennis Channel (USA), Movistar (Spain), SuperTennis (Italy), and beIN Sports (Asia-Pacific), among others.

For their country, and to write their names into history 🔥

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Davis Cup Finals 2025 Italy vs Spain – What’s at Stake

Italy is one win from becoming the first nation in the post-Challenge Round era to capture three straight Davis Cup titles, a feat last achieved by the USA between 1968 and 1972. A victory would also pair with Italy’s women defending their Billie Jean King Cup crown, making them the first country since the USA in 1981-82 to retain both team titles in the same cycle.

Quiet please, ready, play.

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Spain arrives in its first Final since claiming the trophy in 2019. A win would earn their seventh Davis Cup crown, pulling them level with Sweden for fifth on the all-time list. They have history on Italian soil as well: this is their seventh meeting in Italy, and though the hosts lead 5-1 in those ties, Spain took the most recent one, a 3-2 win in Naples in 2005.

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