{"id":23811,"date":"2022-11-25T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/coric-beat-kokkinakis-to-give-croatia-1-0-lead-in-davis-cup-semis\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:16:01","slug":"coric-beat-kokkinakis-to-provide-croatia-1-0-lead-in-davis-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/25\/coric-beat-kokkinakis-to-provide-croatia-1-0-lead-in-davis-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Coric beat Kokkinakis to provide Croatia 1-0 lead in Davis Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Davis Cup Semifinals: Coric beat Kokkinakis \u2013\u00a0Borna Coric put 2018 champions Croatia heading in the right direction for a second successive look within the Davis\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Davis Cup Semifinals: Coric beat Kokkinakis \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Borna Coric put 2018 champions Croatia heading in the right direction for a second successive look within the Davis Cup ultimate with a snug 6-4 6-3 semi-final win over Australia\u2019s Thanasi Kokkinakis in Malaga, Spain on Friday for a 1-0 lead. <strong>Follow Davis Cup 2022 LIVE updates with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InsideSport.IN.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Croatia, who had been crushed by the Russian Tennis Federation within the 2021 title conflict, can now safe a gathering with both Italy or Canada in Sunday\u2019s ultimate if former U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic will get previous Alex De Minaur within the second singles rubber.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/davis-cup-2022-fabio-fognini-stars-as-italy-stun-united-states-to-reach-davis-cup-semifinals-set-to-face-germany-or-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Cup 2022: Fabio Fognini stars as Italy STUN United States to achieve Davis Cup semifinals, set to face Germany or Canada<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis Cup Semifinals: Coric downs Kokkinakis to provide Croatia 1-0 lead in Davis Cup semis<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Australia are attempting to achieve their first ultimate since 2003 \u2014 once they gained their twenty eighth title \u2014 and captain Lleyton Hewitt chosen Kokkinakis for the opening contest instead of Jordan Thompson, who performed towards the Netherlands within the quarters.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"568716\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/davis-cup-semifinals-coric-downs-kokkinakis-to-give-croatia-1-0-lead-in-davis-cup-semis\/dl-beatsnoop-com-3000-rfrd53e7bv\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/dl.beatsnoop.com-3000-RFrD53e7bV.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2867,1912\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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2867px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But regardless of an encouraging begin, the 26-year-old got here undone in the direction of the tip of a good opening set as Coric went up 5-4 and grabbed the one break of the set to take the early benefit within the contest.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Coric, who beat Kokkinakis of their solely earlier assembly in Tokyo this yr, raised his stage within the subsequent set and broke for a 4-2 lead after which he by no means seemed again because the two-times champions went forward within the tie.<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur shall be aiming to make sure that Australia keep away from falling within the semi-finals but once more, with the staff shedding at this stage in 2006, 2015 and 2017 beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>But a victory will imply staff mates Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell face Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic in a rematch of their Wimbledon doubles ultimate this yr, the place the Australian duo emerged triumphant in 5 units. Italy and Canada will contest the second semi-final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis Cup Semifinals: Coric downs Kokkinakis to provide Croatia 1-0 lead in Davis Cup semis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow InsideSport on GOOGLE NEWS \/ Follow Davis Cup 2022 LIVE updates with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InsideSport.IN.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Davis Cup Semifinals: Coric beat Kokkinakis \u2013\u00a0Borna Coric put 2018 champions Croatia heading in the right direction for a second successive look within the Davis\u2026 Davis Cup Semifinals: Coric beat Kokkinakis \u2013\u00a0Borna Coric put 2018 champions Croatia heading in the right direction for a second successive look within the Davis Cup ultimate with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}