The United States and Italy will battle it out in Shenzhen, China for the Billie Jean King Cup title.
For the Americans, this has been a welcome return to form—they’re through to the Billie Jean King Cup final for the first time since 2018, and today they’ll try to win the title for the first time since 2017. For the Italians, this is becoming a habit—this is their third straight final at this event, having been runners-up two years ago (to Canada) and champions last year (over Slovakia).
But there’s another theme today, and that’s revenge—the United States have a 9-5 career record against Italy at this event, but that was 9-0 before 2000 and 0-5 since 2000. A stacked American squad that includes Jessica Pegula, Emma Navarro, Taylor Townsend, McCartney Kessler and Hailey Baptiste will try and turn that pattern around on Sunday against a similarly-stacked Italian squad led by Jasmine Paolini, Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Sara Errani.
👉 Stream WTA Billie Jean King Cup here.
Iga Swiatek takes on Ekaterina Alexandrova for the WTA 500-level title in Seoul.
After they both pulled double duty on Saturday—winning both their quarterfinal and semifinal matches, with rain washing out play on Friday—it’s down to the Top 2 seeds, Swiatek and Alexandrova, for the title in Seoul.
After going more than a year without even reaching a WTA final, Swiatek has now reached the final at four of the last six events she’s played, a stretch that dates back to the grass-court season and includes titles at Wimbledon and Cincinnati. Today she’ll try to win her third title of the year, but Alexandrova is always a dangerous customer, with five Top 10 wins to her name this year—as well as a WTA 500-level title on the indoor hard courts of Linz.
Swiatek leads the head-to-head, 5-2, winning both of their meetings this year in straight sets—including one just a few weeks ago at the US Open.
👉 Stream WTA Seoul here.
