Nao Hibino completed Japan's 3-0 win over Kazakhstan in their Billie Jean King Cup tennis qualifier in dramatic fashion Saturday, clinching her country's place in the team event's finals.Hibino outlasted Yulia Putintseva 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(7) to give the Naomi Osaka-led Japan an insurmountable lead in the best-of-five indoor hardcourt tie at Tokyo's Ariake Coliseum.The 12-team finals will be played in November in Seville, Spain. Japan has advanced to the finals for the first time since the current format was introduced in 2020."I took the captain's job last year, and I didn't expect us to reach …READ FULL ARTICLE