{"id":394569,"date":"2022-11-10T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394569"},"modified":"2022-11-11T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:01:51","slug":"canada-sweep-italy-at-billie-jean-king-cup","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-sweep-italy-at-billie-jean-king-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada sweep Italy at Billie Jean King Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada defeated Italy 3-0 at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals after two impressive singles victories for Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez in Group A.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is 2022 finally the year Team Canada presented by Sobeys lifts the Billie Jean King Cup trophy? \ud83c\udfc6\ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>We believe! Go Canada! \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Rogers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wZfLX4sZpy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wZfLX4sZpy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Canada (@TennisCanada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisCanada\/status\/1590479415913328640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"articleWidget right\">\n<div id=\"advert-e3459d20-1d19-4001-a14e-d85a90af981f\" class=\"advert wrapper u-observed embeddable-widget--floating\" data-widget=\"site-ad\" data-script=\"wta_ads\" data-init-when-visible=\"true\" data-observable-id=\"site-ad_1668206783027_0.5916155951639595\" data-google-query-id=\"CP2ljcaap_sCFe_cEQgdZ64A3Q\" data-initialised=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Andreescu came back from 5-2 down in the first set and saved one set point to beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7-6(3), 6-3 in 1 hour and 51 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kind of like playing when I&#8217;m down, so I raised my level somehow,&#8221; Andreescu said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, there is like a switch in my brain. I just become more aggressive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No.40-ranked Fernandez backed up Andreescu, crushing Martina Trevisan 6-0, 6-0 in just 44 minutes. The last time they had met was in this year&#8217;s Roland Garros quarterfinals, which Trevisan won 6-2, 6-7(3), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez tallied 14 winners to eight unforced errors, while Trevisan racked up 26 unforced errors to only four winners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clinical \ud83d\udc4c<\/p>\n<p>In just 44 minutes, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leylahfernandez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@leylahfernandez<\/a> clinches the tie for Canada with a 6-0 6-0 victory<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BJKCupFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BJKCupFinals<\/a> I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TennisCanada<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jdalttk62S\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Jdalttk62S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Billie Jean King Cup (@BJKCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJKCup\/status\/1590698170576556032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The result was Fernandez&#8217;s second double bagel at pro level following her defeat of Ana Sofia S\u00e1nchez in Naples ITF W25 qualifying in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today was just a great day overall,&#8221; Fernandez said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada defeated Italy 3-0 at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals after two impressive singles victories for Bianca Andreescu and Leylah Fernandez in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394570,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16806,16808],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Andreescu, Fernandez post comfortable wins","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394569"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394569"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}