{"id":36531,"date":"2025-09-20T12:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/pegula-and-navarro-propel-the-u-s-to-the-billie-jean-king-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:05:12","slug":"pegula-and-navarro-propel-the-u-s-to-the-billie-jean-king-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/pegula-and-navarro-propel-the-u-s-to-the-billie-jean-king-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegula and Navarro propel the U.S. to the Billie Jean King Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">United States Advances to the Billie Jean King Cup Final After Defeating Great Britain<\/h2>\n\n\nSHENZHEN, China \u2013 The U.S. women&#8217;s tennis team secured their place in the Billie Jean King Cup final after a standout performance against Great Britain. Both Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro demonstrated their resilience by coming back in their respective singles matches, sealing the victory for the United States with a score of 2-0.\n\nIn the final, the United States will face the current champion, Italy, in a match that promises to be exciting.\n\nJessica Pegula, ranked seventh, staged a spectacular comeback against Katie Boulter, achieving a score of 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Meanwhile, Emma Navarro, ranked 18th, also demonstrated her worth by defeating Sonay Kartal with a result of 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.\n\nPegula reaches this final after her outstanding performance in the US Open semifinals.\n\nThe Billie Jean King Cup, formerly known as the Fed Cup, has seen the United States as the most successful team throughout history, with 18 titles. However, the team has not achieved victory since 2017. The last time the American team reached the final was in 2018.\n\nThe Italian team, led by Jasmine Paolini, world number 8, and with the participation of Elisabetta Cocciaretto, number 91, is also shaping up as a formidable rival.\n\nBoth teams have strong doubles pairings. Italy presents Olympic champions Paolini and Sara Errani, while the United States lines up Pegula alongside Taylor Townsend, the world&#8217;s number one doubles player.\n\nThe matches, which are defined as the best of three games, consist of two singles matches and, if necessary, a doubles match that could be decisive.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Advances to the Billie Jean King Cup Final After Defeating Great Britain SHENZHEN, China \u2013 The U.S. women&#8217;s tennis team secured their place in the Billie Jean King Cup final after a standout performance against Great Britain. Both Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro demonstrated their resilience by coming back in their respective singles [&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":[169,175,167,641],"class_list":{"0":"post-36531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-billie-jean-king-cup","8":"tag-final","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-united-states"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531","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=36531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}