BOLOGNA, Italy — Flavio Cobolli beat Filip Misolic 6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday to clinch a 2-0 victory for two-time defending champion Italy over Austria and set up a Davis Cup semifinal against Belgium.

Cobolli sealed his dominant victory with a service winner after 65 minutes to delight the home crowd.

The semifinal is scheduled for Friday.

Italy has won 12 straight Davis Cup ties since its last loss — to Canada in the finals group stage in 2023.

Earlier, Italy’s Matteo Berrettini beat Jurij Rodionov 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Berrettini was 5-2 down in the second set before coming back with a break in ninth game. He saved three set points against his 177th-ranked opponent in the following game and prevailed in the tiebreaker by converting his first match point.

Ties are played as a best-of-three mat

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