{"id":699577,"date":"2026-06-12T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699577\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:08:22","slug":"defending-champions-italy-to-take-on-hosts-china-at-bjk-cup-finals-in-shenzhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699577\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champions Italy to take on hosts China at BJK Cup finals in Shenzhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Italy will begin \u2060their Billie Jean King Cup title defence \u200cagainst hosts China, while \u200csecond seeds Britain \u200cwill face the Czech \u200cRepublic in the quarter-finals \u200cwhich are set to be played \u200cin Shenzhen in September.<\/p>\n<p>Third \u200cseeds Ukraine and Belgium \u200bwill also face off in the \u200bquarter-finals, and the winner will face either \u2060Italy \u200bor China in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan will take on fourth \u200cseeds Spain in the other quarter-final.\u00a0Each tie will have two singles and a doubles match as best-of-three tiebreak sets.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter-finals will kick \u200coff on September \u200b22, with the final \u200cset for five days later at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy will begin \u2060their Billie Jean King Cup title defence \u200cagainst hosts China, while \u200csecond seeds Britain \u200cwill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-699577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699577","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=699577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}