{"id":524910,"date":"2026-04-11T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524910\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:17:10","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-great-britain-beat-australia-to-enter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524910\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup: Great Britain beat Australia to enter finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apr 11, 2026, 09:09 AM\"Copy<\/a>Email<\/a>Print<\/a>Open Extended ReactionsTeam GB have qualified for the finals in China in September.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Great Britain are through to the Billie Jean King Cup finals thanks to an impressive victory against Australia in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

The team got off to a dream start to the qualifiers on Friday as 17-year-old Mika Stojsavljevic<\/a> marked her debut by beating Talia Gibson<\/a> 7-6 (4) 7-5.<\/p>\n

Harriet Dart<\/a> fought back against Kimberly Birrell<\/a> to win 4-6 6-3 6-3 later that day at John Cain Arena, before then helping Britain take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the doubles on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Dart and Jodie Burrage<\/a> ran out 6-3 6-4 victors against Storm Hunter<\/a> and Ellen Perez<\/a>, securing the Brits’ place in September’s finals.<\/p>\n

– British teen Mika Stojsavljevic scores major upset in Billie Jean King cup<\/a>
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“It’s pretty crazy, we played pretty well actually didn’t we,” Dart said. “It’s such an honour to represent GB and to make the finals as well is kind of surreal.”<\/p>\n

Emerson Jones<\/a> overcame Katie Swan<\/a> 7-5 6-3 as Australia recorded a consolation win in game four.<\/p>\n

The Billie Jean King Cup finals start in Shenzhen on Sept. 21, with the Brits joined by seven other nations in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Multiple Authors Apr 11, 2026, 09:09 AMEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsTeam GB have qualified for the finals in China…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524911,"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-524910","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\/524910","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=524910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}