{"id":3105,"date":"2026-04-13T05:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/3105\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:59:12","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-2026-italy-britain-ukraine-spain-czech-republic-and-kazakhstan-advance-usa-knocked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/3105\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup 2026: Italy, Britain, Ukraine, Spain, Czech Republic and Kazakhstan Advance; USA Knocked Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI: Two-time defending champion Italy won Saturday\u2019s decisive doubles rubber to sweep into the <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/indias-billie-jean-king-cup-playoff-hopes-end-as-ankita-raina-falls-to-koreas-dayeon-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billie Jean King Cup<\/a> finals as the United States were dumped out by Belgium, with Ukraine, Spain, Britain, the Czech Republic and Kazakhstan all also advancing.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic champions Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini sealed the winning point for Italy with a 6-2, 7-5 win over Japan\u2019s Shuko Aoyama and Eri Hozumi on clay at Velletri, south of Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Paolini and Elisabetta Cocciaretto had given the host a 2-0 overnight advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s runner-up the USA\u2014the record 18-time winner\u2014was beaten 3-1 by Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans dragged themselves back into the tie with Caty McNally and Nicole Melichar\u2019s doubles win after losing both singles matches on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But Greetje Minnen surprised world number 16 Iva Jovic 7-5, 6-3 as Belgium booked a return to the finals, to be held in Shenzhen in September, for the first time since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In Melbourne, Harriet Dart and Jodie Burrage won the doubles rubber to power Britain past Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Britain started the day with a commanding 2-0 lead after teenager Mika Stojsavljevic upset Talia Gibson and Dart beat Kimberly Birrell on day one.<\/p>\n<p>It left Australia\u2019s Storm Hunter and Ellen Perez facing a must-win clash in Melbourne, but they failed to rise to the occasion and were beaten 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Belinda Bencic missed three match points in the fourth rubber of Switzerland\u2019s tie with the Czech Republic before Marie Bouzkova gave the Czechs a thrilling 3-2 win by defeating Viktorija Golubic.<\/p>\n<p>Bencic saw three chances to send Switzerland to the finals come and go in a deciding set tie-break before losing 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (11\/9) to Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n<p>Bouzkova then sealed the seven-time winners\u2019 overall victory by seeing off Golubic 7-6 (7\/4), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Twins Lyudmyla and Nadiia Kichenok gave Ukraine an unassailable 3-0 lead after the doubles in the southern Polish city of Gliwice.<\/p>\n<p>Marta Kostyuk and Elina Svitolina won Friday\u2019s singles. Overnight, Slovenia and Spain had been tied 1-1 on clay in Portoroz.<\/p>\n<p>But Aliona Bolsova and Sara Sorribes Tormo teamed up to win the doubles. Kaitlin Quevedo then rallied past Veronika Erjavec 7-6 (7\/4), 6-2 to seal the winning point for Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhstan won 3-1 against Canada after former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu lost her reverse singles tie 7-6 (7\/5), 3-6, 7-6 (7\/4) to Yulia Putintseva.<\/p>\n<p>Andreescu had pulled Canada level 1-1 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But Anna Danilina and Zhibek Kulambayeva beat Andreescu and Cross 7-5, 6-1 in Saturday\u2019s doubles. Agencies<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:   <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelassam.com\/sports-news\/indias-billie-jean-king-cup-playoff-hopes-end-as-ankita-raina-falls-to-koreas-dayeon-back\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India\u2019s Billie Jean King Cup Playoff Hopes End as Ankita Raina Falls to Korea\u2019s Dayeon Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW DELHI: Two-time defending champion Italy won Saturday\u2019s decisive doubles rubber to sweep into the Billie Jean King&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[709,2256,866,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-3105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-billie-jean-king-cup","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}