{"id":172856,"date":"2025-09-22T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/172856\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T00:22:10","slug":"united-states-beaten-by-italy-in-2025-billie-jean-king-cup-final-were-looking-to-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/172856\/","title":{"rendered":"United States beaten by Italy in 2025 Billie Jean King Cup final: &#8216;We&#8217;re looking to build&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had an awesome week here,&#8221; Pegula reflected, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usta.com\/en\/home\/pro\/pro-media---news\/navarro-saves-match-points-pegula-townsend-clinch-bjk-cup-win.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. beat Kazakhstan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usta.com\/en\/home\/pro\/pro-media---news\/navarro-pegula-comebacks-send-u-s-to-billie-jean-king-cup-final.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">swept Great Britain<\/a> to reach the final. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t the result that we wanted today. Just wasn&#8217;t our day today. I think at the same time we really enjoyed competing together, making it to a final, getting through a lot of challenges. Came up short today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All in all I think we&#8217;re looking to kind of build off this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Navarro also looked back fondly on the week with her teammates, while looking forward to playing for the trophy again: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had a blast spending time with everyone on the team. It&#8217;s been a privilege to be able to have this opportunity to play for the U.S.,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m incredibly grateful to have had this opportunity. It just makes me excited to come back and try to win this thing next year or in years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American team will next compete in a home-and-away qualifier in 2026 against an opponent and at a location to be determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We&#8217;ve had an awesome week here,&#8221; Pegula reflected, after the U.S. beat Kazakhstan and swept Great Britain to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,103229,21,19,22,20,25,24,63810],"class_list":["post-172856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-pro-media-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-womens-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172856","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=172856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}