{"id":36357,"date":"2025-09-20T05:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/united-states-to-bjk-cup-semifinals-defeat-kazakhstan\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:14:59","slug":"united-states-to-bjk-cup-semifinals-defeat-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/united-states-to-bjk-cup-semifinals-defeat-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"United States to BJK Cup Semifinals: Defeat Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"SHENZHEN, China \u2013 The United States advances to the Billie Jean King Cup semifinals for the first time since 2021, after defeating Kazakhstan with a score of 2-1 on Thursday. The duo of Jessica Pegula and Taylor Townsend secured the victory in the decisive doubles match.\n\nPegula and Townsend defeated Yulia Putintseva and Elena Rybakina with a score of 6-2, 7-6 (1).\n\n<h2>Defining Singles<\/h2>\n\nIn the singles, Emma Navarro starred in an epic comeback by defeating Putintseva with scores of 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (6), saving two match points. Putintseva was leading 6-4 in the tiebreak, but Navarro reacted to win the last four points after two and a half hours of play.\n\nThe former Wimbledon champion, Rybakina, evened the score in the quarterfinals by defeating Pegula 6-4, 6-1 in a match between the world&#8217;s top ten.\n\nPegula, after her first defeat against Rybakina in two and a half years, joined Townsend, the world number one in doubles and two-time Grand Slam champion in this modality.\n\nTownsend dominated the first set, and the American pair prevailed in the tiebreak of the second set, securing the victory thanks to a double fault by Rybakina.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I wanted to redeem myself a little against her [Rybakina], and try to help my team get the victory.<\/p><cite>Pegula<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe United States will face Great Britain in the semi-finals on Saturday.\n\nGreat Britain secured their place in the semifinals after winning both singles matches in straight sets in their quarterfinal match against Japan. Sonay Kartal defeated Ena Shibahara 6-3, 7-6 (4). Katie Boulter sealed the victory by defeating Moyuka Uchijima 6-2, 6-1 in their first encounter.\n\nIn the other bracket, Ukraine will face defending champion Italy in the semifinals on Friday. Marta Kostyuk and Elina Svitolina won their respective singles matches to secure Ukraine&#8217;s place in the final stage.\n\nThe BJK Cup, formerly known as the Fed Cup, has the United States as the most decorated team with 18 titles, although it hasn&#8217;t won the championship since 2017.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHENZHEN, China \u2013 The United States advances to the Billie Jean King Cup semifinals for the first time since 2021, after defeating Kazakhstan with a score of 2-1 on Thursday. The duo of Jessica Pegula and Taylor Townsend secured the victory in the decisive doubles match. Pegula and Townsend defeated Yulia Putintseva and Elena Rybakina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[640,481,167,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-36357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-bjk-cup","8":"tag-semifinals","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}