{"id":6801,"date":"2023-11-08T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T03:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/marina-stakusic-helps-canada-top-host-spain-in-bjk-cup-finals\/08\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T03:24:19","slug":"marina-stakusic-helps-canada-top-host-spain-in-bjk-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/marina-stakusic-helps-canada-top-host-spain-in-bjk-cup-finals\/08\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Marina Stakusic helps Canada top host Spain in BJK Cup Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEVILLE, Spain &#8212; Teenager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=11221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marina Stakusic<\/a> got the biggest win of her career to help Canada defeat host Spain 3-0 in Group C of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Stakusic, ranked No. 258 in the world, defeated No. 65 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rebeka Masarova<\/a> 6-3, 6-1 to give Canada the first point of the day at La Cartuja Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Stakusic&#8217;s previous career-best victory had been against No. 152 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jaimee Fourlis<\/a> in 2022. She had never beaten a top 100 opponent.<\/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\/38850421\/ptpa-seeks-third-party-review-breakdowns-wta-finals\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;This is such a special feeling and makes me believe that I belong here,&#8221; Stakusic said. &#8220;It is also super special to win in front of all the Canadians who I have worked with for a long time. What a feeling &#8212; it is the most meaningful win for me so far &#8212; and it will give me so much confidence going forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a> gave Canada the second point by edging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sara Sorribes Tormo<\/a> 7-6 (8), 7-6 (7).<\/p>\n<p>In the doubles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Eugenie Bouchard<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gabriela Dabrowski<\/a> beat Sorribes Tormo and Masarova 6-2, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>In Group D, Italy defeated France 2-1 with early victories in the singles matches. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Martina Trevisan<\/a> rallied to defeat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alize Cornet<\/a> 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jasmine Paolini<\/a> beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1804\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caroline Garcia<\/a> 7-6 (6), 5-7, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>France came from behind to win the doubles match with Garcia and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kristina Mladenovic<\/a> defeating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elisabetta Cocciaretto<\/a> and Trevisan 5-7, 6-2, 10-6.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 teams in the BJK Cup Finals compete in four round-robin groups and the winners will advance to the semifinals this weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/38851512\/marina-stakusic-helps-canada-top-host-spain-bjk-cup-finals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEVILLE, Spain &mdash; Teenager Marina Stakusic got the biggest win of her career to help Canada defeat host Spain 3-0 in Group<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/marina-stakusic-helps-canada-top-host-spain-in-bjk-cup-finals\/08\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13628,"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":[1978,388,45,46,2145,1532,2845,303,2846,808],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801"}],"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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6803,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}