BERLIN, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Robert Bosch (ROBG.UL), the world's largest car parts supplier, will reduce the working hours and pay of around 10,000 employees in Germany, going beyond previously announced reductions and in addition to thousands of job cuts announced on Friday.

In addition to cutting thousands of jobs, German automotive supplier and engineering giant Bosch is also reducing the weekly working hours of some of its employees in Germany in order to cut costs. A total of around 10,

German automotive supplier Bosch plans to cut 5,500 jobs, a spokeswoman said on Friday, dealing a fresh blow to the country's car industry. More than two-thirds of these, some 3,800 jobs, are to be cut in Germany,

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was set to run for a second term in upcoming snap elections after his popular Defence Minister Boris Pistorius - a possible replacement - ruled himself out of the running on Thursday.

Scholz and leaders of his center-left Social Democrats vowed Friday to fight their way back from a wide poll deficit ahead of the election, expected to take place Feb. 23. They insisted that the chancellor’s three years in power have brought successes and that the Social Democrats weren’t responsible for the infighting that pushed his unpopular three-party coalition government to collapse this month .

Rafael Nadal in professional tennis, 80th-ranked Botic van de Zandschulp, converted his 10th match point Friday to finally close out a 6-4, 6-7 (12), 6-3 victory over Daniel Altmaier and help the Netherlands reach its first Davis Cup final by sweeping Germany.

An inspired Netherlands team made Davis Cup history as they put their nation into the final for the first time ever with a 2-0 defeat of Germany on Friday. Singles wins for Botic Van de Zandschulp and Tallon Griekspoor sparked a party amongst an army of orange-clad Dutch fans inside the Jose Maria Martin Carpena arena.