{"id":168248,"date":"2025-09-19T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168248\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:42:08","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-2025-holders-italy-reach-third-consecutive-final-with-triumph-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/168248\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup 2025: Holders Italy reach third consecutive final with triumph over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jasmine Paolini guided holders Italy to another Billie Jean King Cup final by winning a gruelling match against Ukraine&#8217;s Elina Svitolina before sealing the tie in a decisive doubles encounter alongside partner Sara Errani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number eight Paolini came from a set down to win an exhilarating match against Svitolina 3-6 6-4 6-4 and force the deciding doubles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">French Open and Olympic champions Paolini and Errani then beat Marta Kostyuk and Lyudmyla Kichenok 6-2 6-3 to seal a 2-1 victory in the tie in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ukraine, competing in the semi-finals for the first time, had put their first point on the board when Kostyuk beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-2 6-3 in the opening match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italy will meet Great Britain or the United States, who face each other in the semi-final on Saturday, in Sunday&#8217;s showpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain are chasing a maiden title while the US are pursuing a record-extending 19th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jasmine Paolini guided holders Italy to another Billie Jean King Cup final by winning a gruelling match against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-168248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}