{"id":23676,"date":"2025-09-19T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/italy-back-to-the-billy-junking-cup-final-after-comeback\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:30:38","slug":"italy-back-to-the-billy-junking-cup-final-after-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/italy-back-to-the-billy-junking-cup-final-after-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy back to the Billy Junking Cup final after comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Shenzhen, China &#8211; Defending champion Italy reached the Billy Junking Cup final for the third consecutive year since coming from behind after beating Ukraine 2-1 in the semi-finals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>French Open Champions Sarah Ellani and Jasmine Paolini scored decisive doubles against Marta Kostuk and Ludmira Kichenok 6-2, 6-3. In the second set, Kostyuk and Kichenok led 3-1, scoring points 4-2, but were double-falling.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second point that he recovered to get 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 on the second single, despite being 4-2 up to Erina Svitorina.<\/p>\n<p>Kostyuk got off to a strong start for Ukraine by beating Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Paolini, the Italian defeated Slovakia in their fifth title in the 2024 final and lost to Canada in the 2023 final.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine was playing in the semi-finals for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The US will play the UK in the second semi-finals on Saturday. The United States defeated Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals, while the UK sent Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The BJK Cup was previously known as the Fed Cup, but the US is the most successful team with 18 winners, but not since 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shenzhen, China &#8211; Defending champion Italy reached the Billy Junking Cup final for the third consecutive year since coming from behind after beating Ukraine 2-1 in the semi-finals on Friday. French Open Champions Sarah Ellani and Jasmine Paolini scored decisive doubles against Marta Kostuk and Ludmira Kichenok 6-2, 6-3. In the second set, Kostyuk and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6032,1005,913,63,169,6317,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-23676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-billy","9":"tag-comeback","10":"tag-cup","11":"tag-final","12":"tag-italy","13":"tag-junking","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23676","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=23676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}