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Australia became the first team to reach the semi-finals of the Billie Jean King Cup after brushing aside Belgium on Thursday (Nov 10), while Canada thumped Italy to set up a crunch clash with Switzerland.
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Belinda Bencic led Switzerland to victory over Italy in their opening Billie Jean King Cup tie on Wednesday while Slovakia bounced back from a tough loss to Australia to defeat Belgium and get their campaign back on track.
The fifth seed romped to a 6-2, 6-0 victory in 80 minutes against Cornet, the third seed, in the inaugural tournament in Tunisia. Mertens broke for a 3-2 lead in the first set, reeling off 11 straight games to wrap up the match.
Belgian Elise Mertens thrashed France's Alize Cornet to win her seventh WTA title and first this year in Monastir on Sunday.
Tunisia when she lost 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 to American Claire Liu in Monastir on Friday. Top seed Jabeur went into the quarter-finals in irrepressible form having dropped just nine games in her previous two matches against the American Ann Li then the Russian Evgeniya Rodina. But she was handed a surprise defeat by Liu, ranked 71 places below her, who came into the tournament in good form. The 22-year-old from California reached the quarter-finals in Tokyo in mid-September and was a finalist in Rabat in May.
The 2022 doubles season is becoming one to remember for Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski as she approaches a second consecutive title and third of the season at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.
World number four Badosa, who was eliminated in the round of 64 at the recent US Open, struggled to gain a foothold against 36th-ranked Zheng and joined number two seed Caroline Garcia in making an early exit from the tournament. Badosa failed to hit a single ace and lost seven straight games before ending a miserable evening in the Japanese capital by swatting a return straight into the ground on match point.