Billie Jean King Cup Finals 2021

Prague hosts the first edition of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals – the revamped Fed Cup Finals. The premier international women’s team event, played since 1963, replaces its traditional format with a World Cup-style event
 

Group stage Four group winners progress to knock-out stage

All ties during tournament best-of-three format (two singles followed by doubles)

Group A 	Nov 1: FRA v CAN	Nov 2: RUS v CAN 	Nov 3: FRA v RUS

France Team line-up 
Singles / doubles rank
Data correct as of Oct 22

Alizé Cornet 		66 275 
Caroline Garcia 	73 170
Clara Burel		75 265
Fiona Ferro		98 406
Captain: Julien Benneteau


Russia
Anastasia P’chenkova	16 105
Daria Kasatkina		28 277
Veronika Kudermetova	32 16
Ekaterina Alexandrova	37 171
Liudmila Samsonova	42 1323
Igor Andreev	


Canada	
Rebecca Marino		147 175
Carol Zhao		330 560
Francoise Abanda	339 1203
Gabriela Dabrowski	710 5   
Sylvain Bruneau


Group B 	Nov 1: BLR v BEL	Nov 2: AUS v BEL Nov 4: AUS v BLR

Australia 
Ajla Tomljanovic	43 138
Astra Sharma		95 107
Storm Sanders		119 33
Ellen Perez 		201 45 
Olivi Gadecki 		232 194 
Captain: Alicia Molik


Belarus
Victoria Azarenka	26 156
Aliaksandra Sasnovich	84 74
Olga Govortsova		132 176 
Yuliya Hatouka		228 491
Lidziya Marozava 	– 84
Tatiana Poutchek


Belgium
Elise Mertens 		18 1
Alison Van Uytvanck 	58 76
Greet Minnen 		69 77
Maryna Zanevska 	102 515
Kirsten Flipkens 	156 114
Johan Van Herck


Group C		Nov 1: ESP v SVK	Nov 2: USA v SVK 	Nov 3: USA v ESP

United States
Jessica Pegula		21 49
Danielle Collins 	31 488
Sloane Stephens		59 1078
CoCo Vandeweghe 	142 153
Caroline Dolehide 	190 29
Captain: Kathy Rinaldi


Spain
Garbine Muguruza 	5 376
Paula Badosa 		13 196
Sara Sorribes Tormo 	34 66  
Nuria P-Diaz 		65 356
Carla Suarez Navarro 	334 1100 
Anabel Medina Garrigues

Slovakia
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 90 613
Kristina Kucova		107 –
Rebecca Sramkova	174 465
Viktoria Kuzmova	176 61
Tereza Mihalikova	606 106
Matej Liptak
   

Group D 	Nov 1: CZE v GER	Nov 2: GER v SUI 	Nov 4: CZE v SUI

Czech Republic		
Barbora Krejciková	4 3
Marketa Vondrousova	35 63
Katerina Siniakova	50 4
Tereza Martincova 	51 189
Lucie Hradecka 		559 32
Captain: Petr Pála


Germany
Angelique Kerber 	12 377
Andrea Petkovic 	79 133
Jule Niemeier 		128 –
Anna-Lena Friedsam 	135 89
Nastasja Schunk 	301 1307
Rainer Schuettler


Switzerland
Belinda Bencic 		9 151
Jil Teichmann 		39 103
Viktorija Golubic 	45 144
Stefanie Voegele 	115 957
Heinz Günthardt


Barbora Krejciková CZE
Roland Garros singles and doubles champion 2021

 
Knock-out stage
Semi-finals: Nov 5 
1 Winner A
Winner C

2 Winner B 
Winner D

Final Nov 6


Previous winners
Fed Cup 1963-2019

Czech Republic and USA have claimed 50% of all women’s ITF team competition titles
United States 	18 
Czech Rep. 	11 
Australia 	7
Spain 		5 
Russia 		4 
Italy 		4 
France 		3 
Germany 	2
South Africa 	1
Belgium 	1
Slovakia 	1 
 

Source: Billie Jean King Cup
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