By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Tuesday, December 12, 2023
American girls will launch their quest to regain the Billie Jean King Cup in Orlando subsequent spring.
The USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, will host the U.S. vs. Belgium Billie Jean King Cup Qualifying competitors April 12-13, 2024. The best-of-five match sequence will function high professional girls’s gamers from the U.S. and Belgium competing to advance to the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Finals.
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This is the best degree {of professional} tennis to be hosted on the USTA National Campus and the primary time Orlando has hosted a Billie Jean King Cup occasion.
The Qualifying occasion is certainly one of eight being held around the globe in April, with the winners of every advancing to the Finals subsequent November in Seville, Spain, to compete for the title.
The United States leads all nations in all-time titles, with 18. The Qualifier is a best-of-five match sequence that begins Friday, April 12, at 6 p.m., with two singles matches that includes every nation’s high 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 Hall of Famer Lindsay Davenport as workforce captain, and she or he’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 Top 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 Beach.
The remaining workforce nominations might be made in March.
Ticketing data might be introduced at a later date.
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