Great Britain now move on to the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, which is set to take place from 21 September.<\/p>\n
They will compete with the other six tie winners from the Qualifiers as well as host nation China for the prize of becoming Billie Jean King Cup champions.<\/p>\n
Billie Jean King Cup results<\/p>\n
The Brits couldn\u2019t have asked for a better start to this must-win tie with 2024 Junior US Open champion Stojsavljevic defeating the in-form Talia Gibson 7-6(4), 7-5 \u2013 the biggest win of her career by ranking.<\/p>\n
Making her debut for Great Britain, Stojsavljevic now becomes LTA Colour Holder No.334<\/a> and is the youngest Brit to win on debut since Katie Swan<\/a> in 2016 (16).<\/p>\n Inspired by her compatriots performance, Dart\u2019s experience helped her come back from a set down to beat world No.80 Kimberly Birrell 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 and give Great Britain a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n Coming into day two, the Brits needed just one win to complete their victory and Dart and Burrage delivered just that against one of the toughest pairings in the competition.<\/p>\n The Brits recovered from an early break deficit to beat top 20 WTA doubles players Storm Hunter and Ellen Perez 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n It’s the second year that Burrage has played a hand in securing the decisive doubles win for GB in Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers after her victory over Netherlands in 2025.<\/p>\n Swan was nominated to play the final rubber against former junior world No.1 Emerson Jones but a back issue in the second set led to a 7-5, 6-3 defeat for the Brit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain now move on to the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, which is set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-524753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524753","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=524753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}