{"id":595111,"date":"2026-04-10T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595111\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:29:08","slug":"andreescu-wins-in-return-as-canada-kazakhstan-split-billie-jean-king-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/595111\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreescu wins in return as Canada, Kazakhstan split Billie Jean King Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ASTANA \u2014 Bianca Andreescu delivered in her return for Canada against Kazakhstan, winning her singles match on the opening day of a two-day Billie Jean King Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Mississauga, Ont., product beat Sonja Zhiyenbayeva 6-4, 7-6 (4) to earn Canada\u2019s lone point Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Andreescu, 25, was playing her first Billie Jean King Cup tie since 2022 following a string of injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2019 U.S. Open champion erased a 0-4 hole in the second-set tiebreak, winning seven straight points to close out the match on the indoor clay court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier, Yulia Putintseva topped Kayla Cross of London, Ont., 6-3, 7-5 to give Kazakhstan the early edge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The best-of-five tie is 1-1 heading into Saturday, with the winner advancing to September\u2019s Billie Jean King Cup finals in Shenzhen, China.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASTANA \u2014 Bianca Andreescu delivered in her return for Canada against Kazakhstan, winning her singles match on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-595111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595111","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=595111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}