{"id":142366,"date":"2025-09-17T01:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142366\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:04:08","slug":"bjk-cup-italy-reach-semi-finals-as-jasmine-paolini-and-elisabetta-cocciaretto-secure-2-0-win-over-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142366\/","title":{"rendered":"BJK Cup: Italy reach semi-finals as Jasmine Paolini and Elisabetta Cocciaretto secure 2-0 win over Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number eight Jasmine Paolini then gave Italy an unassailable 2-0 lead with a 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win over Wang Xinyu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wang also served for the match in the second set but was broken by Paolini &#8211; to the disappointment of a boisterous home crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paolini then came through a tight deciding set to set up a semi-final against either Spain or Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today was a bit tough for me, but I tried to stay there for the bench, the Italian fans, for the country,&#8221; Paolini said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The doubles match between the two teams was cancelled with the best-of-three tie already decided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain, led by Katie Boulter, begin their bid for a first BJK Cup title on Thursday against Japan, with the tie live across the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number eight Jasmine Paolini then gave Italy an unassailable 2-0 lead with a 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-142366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}