Canada wins Billie Jean King Cup | CityNews Calgary
Canada gained the Billie Jean King Cup for the primary time on Sunday, clinching the ladies’s workforce occasion over Italy, because of wins by 18-year-old Marina Stakusic after which Leylah Fernandez within the singles matches, in Seville, Spain.
The Thirty fifth-ranked Fernandez secured the victory with a 6-2, 6-3 win over Italy’s Jasmine Paolini, the world’s Thirtieth-ranked participant, within the second singles match. The 21-year-old from Laval, Que., broke the Italian’s serve six occasions.
Paolini staved off championship level with a break of her personal, down 5-2, however Fernandez then broke the Italian for a remaining time to safe the title.
Stakusic, from Mississauga, Ont., began the day with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Italy’s Martina Trevisan. The teenager jumped out to a 4-1 lead within the opening set, however Trevisan rallied, finally grabbing a 5-4 lead. The Canadian, who’s ranked 258th on this planet, then gained the subsequent three video games to take the set towards the Forty third-ranked Italian.
In the second set, Stakusic was damaged by Trevisan within the opening sport, however then broke again and finally jumped out to a 3-1 lead, en path to her win.
The victory by the ladies follows the Canadian males’s win within the 2022 Davis Cup.
Fernadez and Gabriela Dabrowski upset Czechia’s Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova in a second-set tiebreaker 7-5, 7-6 (3) on Saturday as Canada superior with a 2-1 total victory within the semifinal of the ladies’s worldwide workforce tennis match for the primary time.
