{"id":394606,"date":"2022-11-12T17:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394606"},"modified":"2022-11-13T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T06:06:11","slug":"australia-edged-britain-2-1-in-semis-of-billie-jean-king-cup-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/australia-edged-britain-2-1-in-semis-of-billie-jean-king-cup-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia edge Britain 2-1 in Billie Jean King Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsNewsArticle__perex\">Australia kept alive their hopes of winning their first title since 1974 after edging hosts Britain 2-1 in the semi-finals of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Australia shines brightest to advance to the final! \ud83c\udf1f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BJKCupFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BJKCupFinals<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TennisAustralia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dizxQCSbx9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dizxQCSbx9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Billie Jean King Cup (@BJKCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJKCup\/status\/1591479257691475968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s hero was Storm Sanders, who won the first singles rubber before returning for the deciding doubles match alongside 38-year-old veteran Samantha Stosur. Britain reached the semi-finals for the first time in 41 years<\/p>\n<p>With the tie level at 1-1 following the singles rubbers, Sanders and Stosur defeated Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls 7-6 (1), 6-7 (5), 10-6 to secure their country&#8217;s first final appearance since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That could have gone either way, credit to the British girls&#8230; It&#8217;s a real honour to represent Australia in the final,&#8221; Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will play either Switzerland or the Czech Republic in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Inspirational \ud83e\udd29<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stormsanders94?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@stormsanders94<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bambamsam30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bambamsam30<\/a> have caught their breath, let&#39;s hear from Team Australia<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BJKCupFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BJKCupFinals<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisAustralia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TennisAustralia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hg3kALrLd3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Hg3kALrLd3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Billie Jean King Cup (@BJKCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BJKCup\/status\/1591484822597181440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia kept alive their hopes of winning their first title since 1974 after edging hosts Britain 2-1 in the semi-finals of the Billie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394607,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16808],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Australia will play either Switzerland or the Czech Republic in the final on Sunday","video":["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\/394606"}],"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=394606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394606"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394606"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}