Haddad Maia and Kostyuk headline nominations for 2024 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Play-offs

The Play-offs will feature eight ties taking place around the world on 15-17 November 2024.

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.

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.

 

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