The Italian team Clinches Historic Third Consecutive Tennis Trophy Title

Flavio Cobolli alongside his compatriot led Italy to Davis Cup success as the home team beat the Spanish team to secure a record-breaking three-peat championship in front of an jubilant home crowd

48 hours after he narrowly won an epic 32-point decider, the Italian talent returned to starred as he recovered from a set and a break down to overcome Jaume Munar in three sets

The 23-year-old's gritty 1-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-5 triumph sealed a straight sets triumph for his country in the Italian city after Berrettini had won 6-3 6-4 against the Spanish player

It is a fourth team championship victory in total for the Italian team, who are the first nation to win three straight championships since title holders no longer received automatic qualification to the final 53 years ago

Local Supporters Fuels Italian Triumph

Supported passionately by the vast majority of a sell-out capacity crowd, Cobolli conquered a slow start to trigger scenes of jubilation among the Italian athletes, staff and fans

Cobolli was mobbed by his team-mates on court but took a brief time to praise his opponent on his performance before returning to the festivities

Star Performers Deliver in Missing Stars

Both the Italian squad and the Spanish team reached the final despite being without key players, with the absence of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner denying spectators a seventh meeting of the season between the top-ranked tennis stars

But, with Italian number two another key player also absent, Cobolli and Berrettini owned their opportunities in the spotlight with three wins from all their matches each this week

Thrilling Recovery Secures Win

The audience shouted the player's name as he maintained his composure to close out his recovery victory to love, having forced the decisive break in the 11th game of a tense deciding set

That was quite an accomplishment, given he had stated he had achieved a "goal" in delivering his nation to Sunday's showpiece on domestic ground

In contrast to the events of Friday night, when Cobolli tore off his shirt in jubilation on "among the greatest" moments of his career, the world number 22 faced the consequence for a slow start as he conceded a one-sided first set

But Cobolli initiated a essential, immediate comeback after falling a behind at the beginning of the second

The Italian's luck seemed to shift after a nine-minute pause in play when a spectator of the crowd became unwell

When the match resumed, and with Munar down break point, the player floated over a volley that hit a fortunate net cord and brought the game to deuce

Although frustratingly denied multiple opportunities on his opponent's serve, Cobolli seized command of a must-win breaker to force the final set - where he once again performed

Berrettini Continues Remarkable Run

The Italian star had earlier taken his Davis Cup individual victory run to 11 matches with an excellent display against Carreno Busta

The Grand Slam finalist used his third break point for a advantage before confidently serving out the opener to love

Having won 11 of the last 13 points to take the opening set, Berrettini appeared ready to strengthen his hold on the match upon creating two break points in the opening game of the following set

Carreno Busta succeeded to save both before producing a sequence of solid serving performances - but Berrettini took his following chance and closed to love to finish his victory