{"id":157338,"date":"2025-09-20T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:03:07","slug":"jessica-pegula-emma-navarro-lead-us-past-britain-into-billie-jean-king-cup-final-vs-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157338\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Pegula, Emma Navarro lead US past Britain into Billie Jean King Cup final vs. Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SHENZHEN, China (AP) \u2014 Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro each came from a set down to win their singles matches and the United States defeated Britain 2-0 on Saturday to reach the Billie Jean King Cup final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The U.S. will face defending champion Italy in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The seventh-ranked Pegula rallied past Katie Boulter 3-6 6-4 6-2 to seal it for the Americans after the 18th-ranked Navarro beat Sonay Kartal 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pegula is coming off a run to the U.S. Open semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The BJK Cup was formerly known as the Fed Cup, and the U.S. is the most successful team as an 18-time winner \u2014 but hasn\u2019t won since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Americans\u2019 last final came in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Italians are led by No. 8 Jasmine Paolini, with No. 91 Elisabetta Cocciaretto also playing singles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both squads have strong doubles teams. Italy has Olympic champions Paolini and Sara Errani. Pegula and top-ranked doubles player Taylor Townsend line up for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The best-of-three contests feature two singles matches followed by a potentially decisive doubles match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHENZHEN, China (AP) \u2014 Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro each came from a set down to win their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-157338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}