{"id":379175,"date":"2026-01-19T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379175\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:45:08","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-2026-great-britain-drawn-away-to-australia-in-qualifying-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/379175\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup 2026: Great Britain drawn away to Australia in qualifying round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain have been drawn away to Australia in the qualifying round for this year&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tie will take place 10-11 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At last year&#8217;s tournament Britain were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cx2px2008vko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beaten 2-0 in the semi-finals<\/a> by the USA, who start their campaign with an away tie against Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain are seeded third and the USA second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Champions Italy, who beat the USA 2-0 in the final to defend their title, are top seeds and will host Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain have been drawn away to Australia in the qualifying round for this year&#8217;s Billie Jean King&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-379175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}