{"id":20073,"date":"2026-11-05T23:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/spain-argentina-portugal-italy-and-france-have-reached-the-semi-finals-of-the-2026-fip-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T21:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T20:34:49","slug":"spain-argentina-portugal-italy-and-france-have-reached-the-semi-finals-of-the-2026-fip-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/spain-argentina-portugal-italy-and-france-have-reached-the-semi-finals-of-the-2026-fip-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"France delivers a surprise and qualifies for the semifinals of the 2026 FIP World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The circle narrows in Doha. The <strong>quarterfinal day <\/strong>of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padelfip.com\/es\/eventos\/fip-world-cup-2026-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIP World Cup 2026<\/a><\/strong>, held at the <strong>Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex,<\/strong> has determined the four contenders for the title in each category. <strong>Spain<\/strong> and <strong>Argentina<\/strong> confirmed their status as favorites <strong>in <\/strong>both the <strong>women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s draws<\/strong>, while <strong>France<\/strong> emerged as the tournament&#8217;s <strong>major surprise in the women&#8217;s category<\/strong> after defeating the Netherlands to take the spot that belonged to<a href=\"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/portugal-loses-its-top-seed-status-in-the-womens-draw-for-the-2026-fip-world-cup\/\"> Portugal <\/a>in 2024. In the<strong> men&#8217;s category, <\/strong>the <strong>Portuguese<\/strong> and the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <strong>Italian<\/strong> delegations join the list to recreate a scene identical to the semifinals of the last World Cup edition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s category repeats the 2024 semifinals, with Spain, Argentina, Portugal, and Italy. In the women&#8217;s category, France breaks into the top four alongside Spain, Argentina, and Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,158,160],"tags":[],"clasificacion":[],"pais":[],"tipo-de-torneo":[],"tipo-de-competicion":[161],"class_list":["post-20073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-brief-news","category-daily-updates","tipo-de-competicion-world-championship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20125,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions\/20125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"clasificacion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clasificacion?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"pais","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pais?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-torneo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-torneo?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"tipo-de-competicion","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/padelinformacion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-de-competicion?post=20073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}