{"id":4525,"date":"2023-11-07T18:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/reigning-champ-swiss-lose-in-group-stage-of-bjk-cup-finals\/07\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-07T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:23:55","slug":"reigning-champ-swiss-lose-in-group-stage-of-bjk-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/reigning-champ-swiss-lose-in-group-stage-of-bjk-cup-finals\/07\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigning champ Swiss lose in group stage of BJK Cup Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEVILLE, Spain &#8212; The Czech Republic beat defending champion Switzerland on the first day of the group stage at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=6970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Linda Noskova<\/a> defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=12837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Celine Naef<\/a> 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 in the first singles match, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marie Bouzkova<\/a> beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Viktorija Golubic<\/a> 6-4, 6-4 in the second match of the Group A tie.<\/p>\n<p>Bouzkova was a late addition to the Czech team following the withdrawal of world No. 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Karolina Muchova<\/a> because of a wrist injury.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland was without Olympic gold medalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Belinda Bencic<\/a>, who announced on Friday that she is pregnant.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38832452\/billie-jean-king-cup-finals-prize-money-rises-96-million\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The United States is the other team in Group A and will face Switzerland on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In Group B, Slovenia defeated last year&#8217;s runner-up Australia 2-1 after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kaja Juvan<\/a> defeated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ajla Tomljanovic<\/a> 6-4, 6-1 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tamara Zidansek<\/a> beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daria Saville<\/a> 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s point came when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kimberly Birrell<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Storm Hunter<\/a> beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=5878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Veronika Erjavec<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/player\/_\/id\/7768\/ela-milic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ela Nala Milic<\/a> 7-5, 6-7 (2), 10-5 in the doubles match.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-team BJK Cup Finals is being played at La Cartuja Stadium in the southern Spanish city of Seville. It will run through Sunday offering a record total of $9.6 million in prize money, including $2.4 million to the champions.<\/p>\n<p>The teams compete in four round-robin groups and the winners will advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest team competition in women&#8217;s tennis is starting two days after the end of the WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico, which featured the top eight players on the tour &#8212; including winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38843640\/reigning-champ-swiss-lose-group-stage-bjk-cup-finals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEVILLE, Spain &mdash; The Czech Republic beat defending champion Switzerland on the first day of the group stage at the Billie Jean<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/reigning-champ-swiss-lose-in-group-stage-of-bjk-cup-finals\/07\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[1978,387,45,46,467,2690,2811,2645,2812],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}