{"id":23735,"date":"2025-09-20T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/pegra-navarro-will-lead-us-to-the-billy-junking-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:36:50","slug":"pegra-navarro-will-lead-us-to-the-billy-junking-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/20\/pegra-navarro-will-lead-us-to-the-billy-junking-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegra, Navarro will lead us to the Billy Junking Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>China, China &#8212; Jessica Pegra and Emma Navarro respectively came from the set to win a singles match, with the US defeating England 2-0 on Saturday to reach the Billy Jean King Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The US will face defending champion Italy in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pegra, who was seventh, passed 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 to seal it for the Americans after 18th Navarro beat Sonay Cartal 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Pegra has begun the US Open Semi-Finals.<\/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 has not won since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans&#8217; final final came in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian is led by Jasmine Parini, No. 8, and Elisabetta Cocchialette, No. 91, also performs singles.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have strong doubles teams. Italy has Olympic champions Paolini and Sarah Ellani. Pegra and top rank doubles player Taylor Townsend line up for the US<\/p>\n<p>The three best contests will be followed by two singles matches and a potentially decisive doubles match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China, China &#8212; Jessica Pegra and Emma Navarro respectively came from the set to win a singles match, with the US defeating England 2-0 on Saturday to reach the Billy Jean King Cup final. The US will face defending champion Italy in the final on Sunday. Pegra, who was seventh, passed 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6032,913,63,6317,1908,789,2589,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-23735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-billy","9":"tag-cup","10":"tag-final","11":"tag-junking","12":"tag-lead","13":"tag-navarro","14":"tag-pegra","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735","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=23735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}