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The Hindu
19-06-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
India to host Netherlands and Slovenia in Bengaluru in Billie Jean King Cup tennis
India has been clubbed with the Netherlands and Slovenia for the Billie Jean King Cup World Group play-off women's tennis tournament to be staged from November 14 to 16. India has also got the hosting rights for the event, on the outdoor hard courts of the S.M. Krishna Tennis Stadium in Bengaluru. The three teams will play in a round-robin league format and the topper will make it to the Qualifier. Like in the regional competition earlier, matches will feature two singles and a doubles. All matches will be played on best of three tie-break sets. Susan Lamens (70), Arantxa Rus (91), Arianne Hartono (188) and Anouk Koevermans (190) are the top ranked Dutch players. They have the 18th ranked doubles specialist Demi Schuurs and the 91st ranked Isabelle Haverlag as well. Slovenia has Veronika Erjavec (172), Tamara Zidansek (206), Kaja Juvan (239) and Dalila Jakupovic (319) as the best ranked players. Similarly, three teams each will compete in six other venues, leading to seven qualifiers overall. The rest of the teams will return to group-1 in their respective zones. The groupings: Group-A: Canada, Mexico (host), Denmark. Group-B: Poland (host), Romania, New Zealand. Group-C: Slovakia, Switzerland, Argentina (host). Group-D: Czechia, Colombia, Croatia (host). Group-E: Australia (host), Brazil, Portugal. Group-F: Germany (host), Belgium, Turkey. Group-G: The Netherlands, Slovenia, India (host).
The Hindu
18-06-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Billie Jean King Cup play-off draw on Thursday
The draw for the Billie Jean King Cup World Group play-off women's tennis event is scheduled to be made in London on Thursday. Unlike the last time when India played Latvia in the play-off in April 2021 that saw Jelena Ostapenko lead her team to a 3-1 victory, it will be a three-nation competition this time, spread over seven groups. Seven nations, Canada, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands have been seeded. The next bunch will have Romania, Switzerland, Belgium, Slovenia, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. India and New Zealand which qualified from the Asia-Oceania zone will be along with Argentina, Turkey, Denmark, Croatia and Portugal. Each of the seven pool of three teams will have one country drawn from each of the three groups. The host will also be decided by the ITF. The three teams in each group will compete on a league basis. The topper of each of the seven groups will make it to the World Group qualifier. The rest will return to group-1 in their zones.
