{"id":583824,"date":"2026-04-03T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583824\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:35:08","slug":"england-lose-kartal-for-bjk-cup-clash-against-australia-eastern-riverina-chronicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583824\/","title":{"rendered":"England lose Kartal for BJK Cup clash against Australia | Eastern Riverina Chronicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Sonay Kartal has pulled out of Great Britain&#8217;s squad for their Billie Jean King Cup tie against Australia with Katie Swan drafted in as her replacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">British No.2 Kartal was forced to withdraw as a result of the back problem she suffered during the Indian Wells Open last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Swan, who in 2016 became the youngest player to represent Great Britain in the tournament when she made her debut against South Africa as a 16-year-old, joins Harriet Dart, Jodie Burrage and Mika Stojsavljevic in the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Commenting on her withdrawal on her Instagram account, Kartal said: &#8220;I had a feeling something wasn&#8217;t right with my back when I arrived in Miami and after having some scans, it&#8217;s clear that I&#8217;m going to need a little more time to let it heal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">The best-of-five rubber at Melbourne&#8217;s John Cain Arena will be played on Friday and Saturday next week with the winner progressing to the 2026 Finals in China in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Maya Joint, Storm Hunter, Kimberly Birrell, Talia Gibson and Emerson Jones have been named in Australia&#8217;s squad, captained by Sam Stosur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">Australian Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonay Kartal has pulled out of Great Britain&#8217;s squad for their Billie Jean King Cup tie against Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-583824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}