🎾China's Zheng Qinwen, the Paris 2024 Olympic gold medalist, attends a news conference for the 2026 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals at Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Nanshan District yesterday. The premier women's team tennis competition will begin Sept. 22 and run through Sept. 27. Zheng is one of five players on China's team, captained by Zheng Jie. China will compete alongside defending champion Italy and teams from the U.K., Spain, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belgium. It will face Italy in the quarterfinals Sept. 24. The Billie Jean King Cup, formerly known as the Fed Cup, is the women's World Cup of Tennis. 🗓️ FULL TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE (Sept 22–27): • Sept 22: Czechia vs. Great Britain (QF) • Sept 23: Spain vs. Kazakhstan (QF) • Sept 24: Ukraine vs. Belgium (QF) 🔥Sept 24 (17:00 CST): China🇨🇳 vs. Italy🇮🇹 (QF Spotlight) • Sept 25–26: Semi-Finals • Sept 27: Championship Final #tennis# #ZhengQinwen# #QueenWen# #BJKCup# #shenzhen#

Big news from Italy 🇮🇹 Georgia Meloni just announced Italy will BAN face coverings in school. The government will also have a limit on the number of foreign students in each classroom to avoid Italian children from becoming a minority. And parents of students who have difficulties with integration at school will also be required to learn Italian. Italy is getting serious about integration.

Starlink Mobile is starting to come alive in Italy 🇮🇹 Fastweb just completed Italy’s first Starlink Mobile video call using a normal 4G smartphone A normal video call....with the connection coming directly from space

Tesla Energy just secured a massive new Megapack agreement in Italy 🇮🇹 Zhero has signed a framework agreement with Tesla Energy for around 3 GWh of battery storage.....potentially worth roughly $800 MILLION Tesla will supply Megapacks for the projects, starting with 200 MW of storage that is already ready to build And the scale keeps growing Zhero is developing more than 1.5 GW of utility-scale battery projects across Italy 3 GWh from one framework agreement Tesla Energy is rapidly becoming core infrastructure for Europe’s power grid Megapack is turning into an absolute monster business