{"id":579783,"date":"2026-04-03T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:08:06","slug":"injured-sonay-kartal-out-of-great-britains-billie-jean-king-cup-qualifier-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579783\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Sonay Kartal out of Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sonay Kartal has withdrawn from Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia in Melbourne next week because of injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The absence of the British number two means the team will be without their four highest-ranked players, after Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Francesca Jones were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c14mdznd3gko\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not included in the initial squad<\/a> as they focus on their clay-court seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It leaves world number 181 Harriet Dart as the team&#8217;s highest-ranked singles player for the tie, which takes place on 10-11 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal, 24, said she had not yet recovered from the lower back issue which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c80jn4p84ngo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forced her retirement<\/a> from a fourth-round Indian Wells match against world number three Elena Rybakina last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After having some scans it is clear that I&#8217;m going to need a little more time to let it heal,&#8221; Kartal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonay Kartal has withdrawn from Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia in Melbourne next week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-579783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}