The locals say goodbye to the Malaga final at the first opportunity. Spain, with a team without its big stars, couldn’t beat Croatia and ended up losing 2-0 in the quarter-finals, missing out on their seventh Davis Cup.

A defeat which is largely explained by the losses suffered by Spain during these finals. Wing Confirmed absence of Rafael Nadal since January the local team had to add that of Carlos Alcaraz, who at the Masters 1000 in Paris, he injured his abdomen which caused him to stop for six weeks.

So, together with Roberto Bautista Agut and Pablo Carreño Busta, they went in search of a new semi-final. The problem is that they faced Borna Coric and Marin Cilic, who took advantage of a fast and covered court to impose their game in the two games played on Wednesday in Malaga. under the gaze of 9,500 fans.

Coric led the way by beating Bautista by 6-4 and 7-6(4) so Cilic then ended the series by defeating Carreño in a battle that lasted over 3 hours and ended 5-7, 6-3 and 7-6(5) in favor of the winner of the 2014 US Open.

Now, Croatia will face Australia in the semi-finals, who beat the Netherlands on the first day of competition. The other semi-final will be played by the winners of the keys between Italy-USA and Germany-Canada.