Italy comfortably beat Slovakia in Billie Jean King Cup final

Bronzetti and Paolini brought their team the fifth victory in the main women’s national team tournament and the first since 2013

Italy national team became the winner Billie Jean King Cup 2024leaving no chance in the final confrontation Slovakia – 2:0.

Victoria Grunchakova and Lucia Bronzetti were the first to take to the court. The 78th racket of the world confidently won the first set (6:2), but in the second game the representative of the third hundred in the world ranking imposed a fight. Grunchakova led 4:2 on someone else’s serve, but Bronzetti immediately responded with a successful break, after which she took the next three games.

In the second singles duel, world number four Jasmine Paolini dispatched Rebecca Shramkova in 66 minutes. The Slovakian lost five of her seven serves to her opponent, to which she managed to respond with only one break.

Let us remember that at the previous stage Italy managed to break the resistance of Poland (2:1).

The Southern European team played in their second consecutive Billie Jean King Cup final. Today’s victory was Italy’s fifth in the main women’s national team tournament, which until 2020 was called the Fed Cup. The Italian team’s previous victories date back to 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2013.


  • Billie Jean King Cup. Malaga, Spain. Final

Slovakia – Italy — 0:2

Victoria Grunchakova – Lucia Bronzetti — 0:2 (2:6, 4:6)
Rebecca Shramkova – Jasmine Paolini — 0:2 (2:6, 1:6)

Source: Sportarena

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