Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova and runner-up Karolina Muchova \u2060will spearhead Czech Republic’s challenge in the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, while \u200chosts China will look to reigning Olympic gold \u200cmedallist Zheng Qinwen to carry their \u200chopes this year.<\/p>\n
Italy will be bolstered by \u200cworld number 15 Jasmine Paolini<\/a> as \u200cthey continue their title defence against China. Italy are eyeing a third consecutive title.<\/p>\n Twice \u200cGrand Slam champion Elena Rybakina<\/a> will \u2060be among \u200cthe big names in action when Kazakhstan take \u200bon Spain.<\/p>\n Ukraine, led by Elina Svitolina<\/a> and Marta Kostyuk<\/a>, will face \u200bBelgium, while the Czechs play Britain in the quarter-finals of the premier women’s \u2060team tournament.<\/p>\n All \u200bties will be played as best-of-three matches, with two singles matches followed by a doubles. Matches will be best-of-three tie-break sets.<\/p>\n The Finals will be held in the Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre from September 22nd-27th.<\/p>\n Billie Jean King Cup Finals teams<\/p>\n Italy: Jasmine Paolini, Elisabetta Cocciaretto<\/a>, Lucia Bronzetti<\/a>, Sara Errani<\/a>, Tyra Grant<\/a>.<\/p>\n China: Zheng Qinwen<\/a>, Wang Xiyu<\/a>, Zhang Shuai<\/a>, Guo Hanyu<\/a>, Jiang Xinyu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ukraine: Elina Svitolina, Marta Kostyuk, Oleksandra Oliynykova<\/a>, Dayana Yastremska<\/a>, \u200cLyudmyla Kichenok<\/a>.<\/p>\n Belgium: Hanne Vandewinkel<\/a>, Jeline Vandromme<\/a>, \u200bGreet Minnen<\/a>, Magali Kempen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kazakhstan: Elena Rybakina, Yulia \u200cPutintseva<\/a>, Anna Danilina<\/a>, Zhibek Kulambayeva<\/a>, Sonja Zhiyenbayeva<\/a>.<\/p>\n Spain: Jessica Bouzas Maneiro<\/a>, Kaitlin Quevedo<\/a>, Marina Bassols Ribera<\/a>, Sara Sorribes Tormo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Czech Republic: Linda Noskova<\/a>, Karolina Muchova<\/a>, Marie Bouzkova<\/a>, \u2060Katerina Siniakova<\/a>.<\/p>\n Great Britain:\u00a0Katie \u2060Boulter<\/a>, Harriet Dart<\/a>, \u200cMika Stojsavljevic<\/a>, Jodie Burrage<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova and runner-up Karolina Muchova \u2060will spearhead Czech Republic’s challenge in the Billie Jean King…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-836289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836289","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=836289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}