{"id":23606,"date":"2025-09-18T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/after-beating-kazakhstan-well-be-in-the-billy-junking-cup-semis\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:00:27","slug":"after-beating-kazakhstan-well-be-in-the-billy-junking-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/after-beating-kazakhstan-well-be-in-the-billy-junking-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"After beating Kazakhstan, we&#8217;ll be in the Billy Junking Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Shenzhen, China &#8212; Jessica Pegra and Taylor Townsend have sent the US to the Billy Jan King Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2021 after beating Kazakhstan 2-1 on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Pegra and Townsend have broken through Yulia Putintseva and Elena Rybakina, 6-2, 7-6 (1) in doubles.<\/p>\n<p>In the singles, Emma Navaro beat Putinzeva 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (6), and Rivakina evenly equalized the quarterfinals by sending Pegra 6-4 and 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time major doubles champion Townsend sparked some controversy this week after she later apologized for her comments about Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>The US will play Japan or the UK in Saturday&#8217;s semi-finals. Japan and the UK will be playing the quarterfinals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With the other half of the draw, Ukraine will face defending champion Italy in the semi-finals on Friday. Marta Kostyuk and Elina Svitolina won singles matches with Jessica Bouzas Maneiro and Paula Badosa respectively, moving Ukraine to the final four. Italy defeated host China.<\/p>\n<p>The BJK Cup was previously known as the Fed Cup. The US is the most successful team with 18 winners, but has not won a title since 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenzhen, China &#8212; Jessica Pegra and Taylor Townsend have sent the US to the Billy Jan King Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2021 after beating Kazakhstan 2-1 on Thursday. Pegra and Townsend have broken through Yulia Putintseva and Elena Rybakina, 6-2, 7-6 (1) in doubles. In the singles, Emma Navaro beat Putinzeva 7-5, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[698,6032,913,6317,6332,198,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-23606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-beating","9":"tag-billy","10":"tag-cup","11":"tag-junking","12":"tag-kazakhstan","13":"tag-semis","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}