ITF Press Release, October 18, 2024
Top 20 players Beatriz Haddad Maia and Marta Kostyuk lead a strong line-up of athletes who will compete at the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Play-offs next month, with eight ties taking place around the world on 15-17 November 2024. The Play-offs will be held alongside the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Malaga on 13-20 November.
Haddad Maia will lead Brazil in an all-South American clash with Argentina in Sao Paulo, while Kostyuk’s Ukraine team are bidding to defeat Austria in a tie taking place on neutral ground in McKinney, Texas.
Former Olympic champion Belinda Bencic has been nominated for Switzerland’s clash with Serbia, with Bencic set to return to professional tennis after maternity leave at the W75 Hamburg tournament on the ITF World Tennis Tour later this month. Her last Billie Jean King Cup appearances came at the 2022 Finals in Glasgow, where she led Switzerland to their first Billie Jean King Cup title.
Other leading players confirmed as part of their nations’ squads for next month’s Play-offs include: Clara Burel (France), Camila Osorio (Colombia), Diane Parry (France), Yulia Putintseva (Kazakhstan), Clara Tauson (Denmark) and Yuan Yue (China, P.R.).
The Play-offs will be contested on Friday 15 – Saturday 16 November or Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 November (home nations had choice of dates). Each tie will be played as best-of-five matches, with two singles matches on day one, followed by the two reverse singles matches and the doubles match on the day two.
The eight winning nations from the 2024 Play-offs will advance to the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers, where they will compete for a place at next year’s Finals and a chance to lift the famous trophy at the end of the year. Losing nations from the 2024 Play-offs will compete in regional Group I events next season.
To enable the transition to an eight-team Billie Jean King Cup Finals in 2025, the 2025 Qualifiers and Play-offs will be played as three-team group stage events. Traditional home-and-away ties will return in the Qualifiers and Play-offs from 2026 onwards. For more details on the format changes for 2025, please visit the Billie Jean King Cup website.
Elsewhere in Billie Jean King Cup action next month, 12 teams will compete to be crowned 2024 world champions at the Finals in Malaga, with action getting underway on Wednesday 13 November and culminating in the final on Wednesday 20 November.
Both the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Finals and the 2024 Davis Cup Final 8 are being held in Malaga as part of a wider partnership between the ITF and the Region of Andalucia.
2024 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Play-offs
SWITZERLAND v SERBIA
Dates: Friday 15-Saturday 16 November
Venue: Swiss Tennis Arena, Biel, Switzerland
Surface: hard, indoors
Head-to-head: Switzerland lead 3-0
Switzerland
Viktorija Golubic
Jil Teichmann
Simona Waltert
Celine Naef
Belinda Bencic
Captain: Heinz Guenthardt
Serbia
Lola Radivojevic
Mia Ristic
Natalija Senic
Anja Stankovic
Captain: Dusan Vemic
KAZAKHSTAN v KOREA, REP.
Dates: Saturday 16-Sunday 17 November
Venue: National Tennis Center (Beeline Arena), Astana, Kazakhstan
Surface: hard, indoors
Head-to-head: Kazakhstan lead 5-3
Kazakhstan
Yulia Putintseva
Zhibek Kulambayeva
Zarina Diyas
Anna Danilina
Sandugash Kenzhibayeva
Captain: Yuriy Schukin
Korea, Rep.
Back Dayeon
Park Sohyun
Ku Yeonwoo
Kim Dabin
Captain: Kim Jungbae
COLOMBIA v FRANCE
Dates: Saturday 16-Sunday 17 November
Venue: Hatogrande Country Club, Bogota, Colobia
Surface: clay, outdoors
Head-to-head: France lead 1-0
Colombia
Camila Osorio
Emiliana Arango
Yuliana Lizarazo
Paulina Perez
Valentina Mediorreal
Captain: Alejandro Gonzalez
France
Diane Parry
Clara Burel
Varvara Gracheva
Chloe Paquet
Captain: Julien Benneteau
SLOVENIA v NETHERLANDS
Dates: Friday 15-Saturday 16 November
Venue: Bela Dvorana Velenje, Velenje, Slovenia
Surface: clay, indoors
Head-to-head: Slovenia lead 2-1
Slovenia
Veronika Erjavec
Tamara Zidansek
Pia Lovric
Ziva Falkner
Alja Senica
Captain: Andrej Krasevec
Netherlands
Arantxa Rus
Suzan Lamens
Arianne Hartono
Demi Schuurs
Captain: Kiki Bertens
CHINA, P.R. v BELGIUM
Dates: Saturday 16-Sunday 17 November
Venue: Guangzhou Nansha International Tennis Center, Guangzhou, China, P.R.
Surface: hard, outdoors
Head-to-head: China, P.R. lead 1-0
China, P.R.
Yuan Yue
Wang Xiyu
Wei Sijia
Guo Hanyu
Jiang Xinyu
Captain: Liu Feng
Belgium
Hanne Vandewinkel
Marie Benoit
Sofia Costoulas
Ysaline Bonaventure
Jeline Vandromme
Captain: Wim Fissette
UKRAINE v AUSTRIA
Dates: Saturday 16-Sunday 17 November
Venue: The Courts McKinney, McKinney, TX, USA
Surface: hard, indoors
Head-to-head: tied 1-1
Ukraine
Marta Kostyuk
Lesia Tsurenko
Katarina Zavatska
Anastasiia Sobolieva
Nadia Kichenok
Captain: Illya Marchenko
Austria
Sinja Kraus
Tamira Paszek
Tamara Kostic
Julia Grabher
Captain: Marion Maruska
BRAZIL v ARGENTINA
Dates: Friday 15-Saturday 16 November
Venue: Ginásio Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
Surface: clay, indoors
Head-to-head: tied 4-4
Brazil
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Laura Pigossi
Carolina Alves
Luiza Fullana
Ingrid Gamarra Martins
Captain: Luiz Peniza
Argentina
Maria Lourdes Carle
Julia Riera
Solana Sierra
Jazmin Ortenzi
Captain: Mercedes Paz
DENMARK v MEXICO
Dates: Friday 15-Saturday 16 November
Venue: Farum Arena, Farum, Denmark
Surface: hard, indoors
Head-to-head: Denmark lead 1-0
Denmark
Clara Tauson
Rebecca Munk Mortensen
Johanne Svendsen
Laura Brunkel
Emilie Francati
Captain: Jens-Anker Andersen
Mexico
Renata Zarazua
Marcela Zacarias
Victoria Rodriguez
Giuliana Olmos
Carolina Alonso
Captain: Agustin Moreno
