\nSunday, 12 April 2026, 23:07<\/p>\n
Spain booked their place in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen after sealing a decisive victory over Slovenia on Saturday, overcoming adverse conditions to progress from the qualifying tie.<\/p>\n
Level at 1-1 after Friday\u2019s singles matches, Spain relied on a crucial doubles win from Sara Sorribes and Aliona Bolsova before Kaitlin Quevedo clinched the tie with a straight-sets singles victory. <\/p>\n
Spain travelled to Portoroz without several leading players, including Paula Badosa, Jessica Bouzas and Cristina Bucsa, and faced Slovenia on a surface selected by the hosts. Despite that, they delivered a composed and resilient performance.<\/p>\n
The doubles proved pivotal, with Sorribes returning after a break for mental health reasons and Bolsova nearing retirement later this month.<\/p>\n
The pair, playing together for the first time, defeated Veronika Erjavec and Nika Radisic 6-4, 6-3, recovering a break deficit in both sets to edge Spain ahead in the tie.<\/p>\n
Decider<\/p>\n
The potential decider was then left down to Quevedo, who had already impressed on debut earlier in the tie.<\/p>\n
Born in Florida, Quevedo opted to represent Spain in 2024 and recorded the most significant win of her career to date with a 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over Erjavec.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old recovered from 2-5 down in the opening set, winning five consecutive games before dominating the tie-break and maintaining control in the second set.<\/p>\n
The results confirmed Spain\u2019s passage to the September finals in China, where they will aim for a sixth title.<\/p>\n
Spain will now compete in the Finals for the fifth consecutive year, joining hosts China, Great Britain, Italy and Ukraine, with three places still to be decided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 12 April 2026, 23:07 Spain booked their place in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[14120,25140,26333,9355,2000,299,5597,251357,15277,49079,34992,13492,104,9356],"class_list":["post-890025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-after","tag-billie","tag-comeback","tag-cup","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-finals","tag-jean","tag-king","tag-over","tag-reach","tag-slovenia","tag-spain","tag-win"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116394409703054445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}