Canada is out of the Davis Cup after shedding to Germany within the quarterfinals

MALAGA, Spain — Canada was eradicated from the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup males’s tennis event with a 2-0 loss to Germany on Wednesday.

Daniel Altmaier opened the tie with a 7-6 (5), 6-4 win over Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo, and Jan-Lennard Struff took down Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) within the second match. of singles.

Even when Canada received the singles match, the Germans had a wonderful staff of Kevin Krawietz and Tim Putz ready within the wings if the doubles event was wanted. The pair have been coming off two wins final week on the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy.

Altmaier arrange the opening sport when he got here again from 40-15 within the deciding sport and transformed his solely level of the sport to place Germany up 1-0.

Struff overcame 27 aces from Shapovalov and received the third set tiebreaker when the Canadian made his thirteenth double fault within the match.

Germany will face the Netherlands within the semi-finals whereas Canada, the 2022 Davis Cup champions, look to subsequent yr.

Each groups have been lacking their high particular person gamers. Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime, ranked twenty ninth on the planet, withdrew from the event saying he wished to deal with charity work. Germany was enjoying with out 2nd seed Alexander Zverev.