{"id":699775,"date":"2026-06-12T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699775\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:30:24","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-great-britain-drawn-against-czech-republic-in-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699775\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup: Great Britain drawn against Czech Republic in quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain will play the Czech Republic in the quarter-finals of this year&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harriet Dart, Jodie Burrage and 17-year-old Mika Stojsavljevic starred in an unexpected victory for the British team in the qualifying round <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cge0zgrz0ezo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Australia in April.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Top-ranked players Emma Raducanu, Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal were all unavailable for that tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Czech Republic currently have two top-20 singles players in Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova, as well as doubles world number one Katerina Siniakova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eight-team finals will take place in Shenzhen from 22-27 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defending champions Italy were drawn against hosts China, while Ukraine take on Belgium, and Kazakhstan face Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain will play the Czech Republic in the quarter-finals of this year&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup. Harriet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-699775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}