.Japan lost to Italy 2-1 in the Billie Jean King Cup girls’s team tennis quarterfinals Sunday in Malaga, Spain.After Ena Shibahara gained her 2-hour, 44-minute position songs match for Japan, world No. 4 Jasmine Paolini beat 56th-ranked Moyuka Uchijima 6-3, 6-4 and also went back to the court for a multiplies win due to the exact same rating.After being actually down 5-1 in the 2nd collection against Paolini as well as Sara Errani, Shuko Aoyama as well as Eri Hozumi kept Asia’s semifinal chances to life through succeeding three straight games yet lost in the end at Martin Carpena Field.Asia’s Ena Shibahara returns a chance to Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto during the course of the position match of their Billie Jean King Mug quarterfinal incorporate Malaga, Spain, on Nov. 16, 2024.
(Kyodo).Italy was actually in 2013’s Billie Jean Master Mug second best to Canada. Asia had come into the 12-team finals for the first time under the existing tournament style that was actually introduced in 2020.” I could not win factors at turning points,” Uchijima claimed. “I didn’t play that poor.
I presume I offered her a good fight. This take in of playing among the planet’s best players will absolutely assist my profession.”.Asia’s Moyuka Uchijima (R) speaks along with captain Ai Sugiyama in the course of the Billie Jean King Mug girls’s crew ping pong quarterfinal tie against Italy on Nov. 16, 2024, in Malaga, Spain.Previous world No.
1 Naomi Osaka was not able to play for Asia in the finals because of accident.In the initial match of the Japan-Italy tie, Shibahara originated from a put down to defeat Elisabetta Cocciaretto 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.Related protection:.Ping pong: Uchijima sheds to Olympic champ Zheng at Pan Pacific Open.