.Asia missed to Italy 2-1 in the Billie Jean Master Mug females’s team ping pong quarterfinals Saturday in Malaga, Spain.After Ena Shibahara gained her 2-hour, 44-minute opening single people match for Japan, planet No. 4 Jasmine Paolini beat 56th-ranked Moyuka Uchijima 6-3, 6-4 and also came back to the court for an increases succeed due to the very same score.After being down 5-1 in the second collection against Paolini as well as Sara Errani, Shuko Aoyama and also Eri Hozumi always kept Asia’s semifinal hopes active through gaining three straight activities but came up short in the end at Martin Carpena Field.Asia’s Ena Shibahara comes back a try to Italy’s Elisabetta Cocciaretto during the course of the opening match of their Billie Jean King Mug quarterfinal tie in Malaga, Spain, on Nov. 16, 2024.
(Kyodo).Italy was actually in 2014’s Billie Jean King Mug runner-up to Canada. Japan had actually come into the 12-team finals for the first time under the current event layout that was actually introduced in 2020.” I couldn’t win points at turning points,” Uchijima stated. “I really did not participate in that poor.
I think I provided her a good battle. This take in of playing some of the globe’s best gamers are going to definitely help my profession.”.Japan’s Moyuka Uchijima (R) speaks along with captain Ai Sugiyama throughout the Billie Jean Master Mug girls’s team ping pong quarterfinal connection against Italy on Nov. 16, 2024, in Malaga, Spain.Former planet No.
1 Naomi Osaka was incapable to bet Japan in the finals because of injury.In the 1st match of the Japan-Italy connection, Shibahara originated from a set down to beat Elisabetta Cocciaretto 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.Relevant coverage:.Ping pong: Uchijima drops to Olympic champ Zheng at Frying pan Pacific Open.