On January 7, Beijing time, the ATP Cup semi-final competition began to compete, representing Spain Agut and Poland's Hulkac met. The two sides fought in three sets of the match, and finally Agut won seven sets in the decider to win seven places in the world ranking Hulkac, helping Spain to a valuable victory and leading the team to the FINAL OFP Cup.
In the first set, Agut took the lead in the 3rd set, and Hulkac completed the break in the 8th set to make it 4-4. After that, both sides saved their own serves, and the first set came to grab seven. The battle between the two sides for the seventh set was still fierce, and Agut won the first set 8-6.
In the second set, Hulkac started with a series of breaks to take a 2-0 lead. In the 7th set, Hulkac broke Agut's serve again, and then he managed to save the set in the 8th set and pull back a set 6-2.
In the decider Hulkach defused two end-of-match points in the 10th set, and In the 12th hulkach again defused the final points of the match, bringing the game to the seventh. Agut won three match points 6-3 in seven sets, and on the third match point he cashed in to win the decider 7-5.
In a match that took 2 hours and 47 minutes, the world-ranked 19th-placed Agut defeated the world-ranked 9th-placed Hulkac 7-6 (6)/2-6/7-6 (5). In one of the previous matches, Busta took Zelinsky lightly, so that Spain locked up a place in the ATP Cup final 2-0, and their opponents in the final would be between Russia and Canada.