ITF Press Release, March 13, 2025
USA’s Jessica Pegula and Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina lead a strong line-up of players who will compete at the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Qualifiers in April, with a total of 84 players having been nominated to represent their nations next month. Each Qualifiers event will be held on either 10-12 or 11-13 April.
Pegula and Danielle Collins will spearhead USA’s quest for a Finals berth in Qualifiers Group C in Bratislava, with the Americans set to face hosts Slovakia and Denmark. Meanwhile, Rybakina leads a Kazakhstan team who will play in Qualifiers Group D in Brisbane alongside Australia and Colombia.
Other stars named in their nations’ squads for the Qualifiers include: Linda Noskova (Czechia), Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil), Clara Tauson (Denmark), Belinda Bencic (Switzerland), Elina Svitolina and Marta Kostyuk (Ukraine) and Katie Boulter and Emma Raducanu (Great Britain). Nations can make up to three changes to their squads until one day prior to the event start date.
The 2025 Qualifiers are being played as six groups of three nations on a round-robin basis as the Finals transition from a 12-team event in 2024 to an eight-team event in 2025, mirroring the existing Davis Cup Final 8 format. In January, Shenzhen was confirmed as the host of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals for 2025-27.
Each Qualifiers event will be held in one location over three days on either 10-12 or 11-13 April, with the host nation having choice of surface. The schedules for the Qualifiers were announced last month. The six group winners will join hosts China, P.R. and 2024 world champions Italy at the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals.
All ties at the Qualifiers will be played as best-of-three matches – two singles matches followed by a doubles match. All matches will be played as best-of-three tiebreak sets.
The nations finishing in 2nd and 3rd place in each group will compete in the 2025 Play-offs, alongside the nine best-performing teams from the three 2025 regional Group I events. The Play-offs will also be contested as groups of three teams, with the group winners advancing to the 2026 Qualifiers.
Traditional home-or-away ties will return in the Qualifiers and Play-offs from 2026 onwards.
There are also four regional Group events taking place in the week commencing 7 April. France’s Caroline Garcia, Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko, New Zealand’s Lulu Sun and Mexico’s Renata Zarazua are among those set to represent their nations.
Click the links below to view the team nominations at each event:
· Americas Group I (Mouratoglou Tennis Center, Guadalajara, Mexico)
· Asia/Oceania Group I (MSLTA School of Tennis, Pune, India)
· Europe/Africa Group I (SEB Arena, Vilnius, Lithuania)
· Europe/Africa Group II (Herodotou Tennis Academy, Larnaca, Cyprus)
The team nominations for the 2025 Qualifiers are below:
Group A
Venue: Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo, Japan
Surface: hard, indoors
Dates: Friday 11-Sunday 13 April
Canada (1)
Rebecca Marino
Marina Stakusic
Victoria Mboko
Kayla Cross
Ariana Arseneault
Captain: Heidi El Tabakh
Romania
Anca Todoni
Miriam Bulgaru
Georgia Craciun
Ilinca Amariei
Mara Gae
Captain: Horia Tecau
Japan
Moyuka Uchijima
Aoi Ito
Ena Shibahara
Eri Hozumi
Shuko Aoyama
Captain: Ai Sugiyama
Group B
Venue: RT TORAX Arena, Ostrava, Czechia
Surface: hard, indoors
Dates: Thursday 10-Saturday 12 April
Czechia (2)
Linda Noskova
Marie Bouzkova
Sara Bejlek
Dominika Salkova
Tereza Valentova
Captain: Petr Pala
Spain
Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
Sara Sorribes Tormo
Cristina Bucsa
Nuria Parrizas Diaz
Yvonne Cavalle Reimers
Captain: Carla Suarez Navarro
Brazil
Beatriz Haddad Maia
Laura Pigossi
Luiza Fullana
Ana Candiotto
Luisa Stefani
Captain: Luiz Peniza
Group C
Venue: Peugeot Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia
Surface: hard, indoors
Dates: Friday 11-Sunday 13 April
Slovakia (3)
Rebecca Sramkova
Viktoria Hruncakova
Renata Jamrichova
Tereza Mihalikova
Captain: Matej Liptak
USA
Jessica Pegula
Danielle Collins
McCartney Kessler
Asia Muhammad
Desirae Krawczyk
Captain: Lindsay Davenport
Denmark
Clara Tauson
Johanne Svendsen
Rebecca Munk Mortensen
Laura Brunkel
Emilie Francati
Captain: Jens Anker Andersen
Group D
Venue: Pat Rafter Arena, Brisbane, Australia
Surface: hard, outdoors
Dates: Thursday 10-Saturday 12 April
Australia (4)
Kimberly Birrell
Maya Joint
Ajla Tomljanovic
Storm Hunter
Ellen Perez
Captain: Samantha Stosur
Kazakhstan
Elena Rybakina
Yulia Putintseva
Zhibek Kulambayeva
Zarina Diyas
Anna Danilina
Captain: Yuriy Shchukin
Colombia
Camila Osorio
Emiliana Arango
Yuliana Lizarazo
Paulina Perez
Captain: Alejandro Gonzalez
Group E
Venue: Radomskie Centrum Sportu, Radom, Poland
Surface: clay, indoors
Dates: Thursday 10-Saturday 12 April
Poland (5)
Magdalena Frech
Magda Linette
Maja Chwalinska
Katarzyna Kawa
Captain: Dawid Celt
Switzerland
Belinda Bencic
Jil Teichmann
Viktorija Golubic
Celine Naef
Captain: Heinz Guenthardt
Ukraine
Elina Svitolina
Marta Kostyuk
Katarina Zavatska
Lyudmyla Kichenok
Nadiia Kichenok
Captain: Illya Marchenko
Group F
Venue: Sportcampus Zuiderpark, The Hague, Netherlands
Surface: clay, indoors
Dates: Thursday 10-Saturday 12 April
Great Britain (6)
Katie Boulter
Emma Raducanu
Sonay Kartal
Harriet Dart
Olivia Nicholls
Captain: Anne Keothavong
Germany
Eva Lys
Laura Siegemund
Tatjana Maria
Jule Niemeier
Captain: Rainer Schuettler
Netherlands
Suzan Lamens
Arantxa Rus
Anouk Koevermans
Demi Schuurs
Captain: Elise Tamaela
