By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, December 12, 2023
American ladies will launch their quest to regain the Billie Jean King Cup in Orlando subsequent spring.
The USTA Nationwide Campus in Orlando, Florida, will host the U.S. vs. Belgium Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying competitors April 12-13, 2024. The perfect-of-five match collection will function prime professional ladies’s gamers from the U.S. and Belgium competing to advance to the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Finals.
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That is the very best degree {of professional} tennis to be hosted on the USTA Nationwide Campus and the primary time Orlando has hosted a Billie Jean King Cup occasion.
The Qualifying occasion is considered one of eight being held all over the world in April, with the winners of every advancing to the Finals subsequent November in Seville, Spain, to compete for the title.
America leads all nations in all-time titles, with 18. The Qualifier is a best-of-five match collection that begins Friday, April 12, at 6 p.m., with two singles matches that includes every nation’s prime two singles gamers. Two reverse singles matches and a doubles match will observe on Saturday, April 13, at 2 p.m., with an amended Saturday schedule doable if one nation clinches victory within the third or fourth singles match.
The Qualifying occasion will mark the debut for Corridor of Famer Lindsay Davenport as workforce captain, and he or she’ll nominate a workforce of 5 gamers to compete towards the Belgians.
The U.S. at the moment has eight gamers ranked within the singles High 50, and each reigning US Open champion and world No. 3 Coco Gauff and world No. 5 Jessica Pegula performed in final 12 months’s Qualifying, held in Delray Seaside.
The ultimate workforce nominations can be made in March.
Ticketing info can be introduced at a later date.
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