.Asia lost to Italy 2-1 in the Billie Jean Master Mug ladies’s group tennis quarterfinals Sunday in Malaga, Spain.After Ena Shibahara won her 2-hour, 44-minute position singles match for Asia, globe No. 4 Jasmine Paolini beat 56th-ranked Moyuka Uchijima 6-3, 6-4 and also came back to the court for a multiplies win by the very same rating.After being actually down 5-1 in the second set versus Paolini and also Sara Errani, Shuko Aoyama and Eri Hozumi maintained Japan’s semifinal hopes alive through winning three straight video games however lost in the end at Martin Carpena Arena.Asia’s Ena Shibahara comes back a chance to Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto during the course of the position match of their Billie Jean Master Cup quarterfinal tie in Malaga, Spain, on Nov. 16, 2024.
(Kyodo).Italy was in 2014’s Billie Jean Master Mug runner-up to Canada. Asia had actually entered the 12-team finals for the first time under the present tournament layout that was offered in 2020.” I could not succeed points at turning points,” Uchijima said. “I really did not play that bad.
I assume I offered her a really good fight. This encounter of participating in one of the world’s top gamers are going to undoubtedly help my occupation.”.Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima (R) talks with captain Artificial intelligence Sugiyama during the course of the Billie Jean Master Cup females’s crew ping pong quarterfinal connection versus Italy on Nov. 16, 2024, in Malaga, Spain.Previous globe No.
1 Naomi Osaka was actually not able to play for Asia in the finals as a result of personal injury.In the initial suit of the Japan-Italy tie, Shibahara came from an ascribed to beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.Similar coverage:.Ping pong: Uchijima drops to Olympic champ Zheng at Frying pan Pacific Open.