{"id":19883,"date":"2025-09-17T02:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bjk-cup-italy-reach-semi-finals-as-jasmine-paolini-and-elisabetta-cocciaretto-secure-2-0-win-over-japan\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:39:54","slug":"bjk-cup-italy-reach-semi-finals-as-jasmine-paolini-and-elisabetta-cocciaretto-secure-2-0-win-over-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/bjk-cup-italy-reach-semi-finals-as-jasmine-paolini-and-elisabetta-cocciaretto-secure-2-0-win-over-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"BJK Cup: Italy reach semi-finals as Jasmine Paolini and Elisabetta Cocciaretto secure 2-0 win over Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number eight Jasmine Paolini then gave Italy an unassailable 2-0 lead with a 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win over Wang Xinyu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wang also served for the match in the second set but was broken by Paolini &#8211; to the disappointment of a boisterous home crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paolini then came through a tight deciding set to set up a semi-final against either Spain or Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today was a bit tough for me, but I tried to stay there for the bench, the Italian fans, for the country,&#8221; Paolini said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The doubles match between the two teams was cancelled with the best-of-three tie already decided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain, led by Katie Boulter, begin their bid for a first BJK Cup title on Thursday against Japan, with the tie live across the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cp3qn25p307o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number eight Jasmine Paolini then gave Italy an unassailable 2-0 lead with a 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win over Wang Xinyu. Wang also served for the match in the second set but was broken by Paolini &#8211; to the disappointment of a boisterous home crowd. Paolini then came through a tight deciding set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19885,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19883\/revisions\/19885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}