Denmark late Saturday evening lost to Canada in the Billie Jean King Cup 2-1 in their final game of a mini-tournament in which the Danes also lost to Mexico. <\/p>\n
Rebecca Munk Mortensen<\/a> otherwise got the Danes, who were without Clara Tauson, off to a great start when she defeated\u00a0Canada<\/a>‘s Cadence Brace.<\/p>\n Brace won the first set 6-3, then dropped the next two sets 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) in a match that took three hours, 41 minutes to play.<\/p>\n Victoria Mboko<\/a> then brought the tie back on level terms when she defeated Johanne Svendsen<\/a> 7-5, 6-3 in the best-of-three, Group A playoff match.<\/p>\n \u201cI just wanted to play it point by point and not rush myself, and just believe in myself,\u201d Mboko said during an on-court interview after the win.<\/p>\n Gabriela Dabrowski then teamed up with Mboko to defeat Johanne Svendsen and Emma Kamper Malmkjaer 6-2, 6-4 in 59 minutes to win the best-of-three showdown 2-1.<\/p>\n Canada<\/a> will play Mexico<\/a> on Sunday in a winner-take-all showdown, with the winner advancing to the 2026 Qualifiers while Denmark<\/a> is relegated to the Regional Group 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark late Saturday evening lost to Canada in the Billie Jean King Cup 2-1 in their final game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-289420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}