The Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) has introduced that Seville, Spain will host the Finals of the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge.
The climax of the 2023 ladies’s World Cup of Tennis will happen on 7-12 November with 12 groups battling it out to take residence the coveted trophy and don the long-lasting Billie Blue jackets. This yr the Billie Jean King Cup is celebrating 60 years because the international occasion was first performed in June 1963 in London.
Final yr’s winners Switzerland and runners-up Australia might be joined by the 9 nations that triumphed in April’s Qualifiers: Canada, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Slovenia, Spain and USA. The ITF has additionally awarded a wildcard for the Finals to Poland.
Groups will compete in 4 round-robin teams of three, with the 4 group winners progressing to the semi-finals.
This would be the sixth time and first since 2008 that Spain has hosted the Finals of the competitors. Seville will host the occasion for the following two years, with an choice to increase for a 3rd yr. Additional particulars about this yr’s venue might be confirmed sooner or later.
Since being re-branded from the Fed Cup in 2020, the competitors has continued to develop as a daring, highly effective platform for the expansion of ladies’s tennis the world over. It was broadcast in an unprecedented 196 territories in 2022, and a file 134 nations have entered this yr. Champions Switzerland took residence a file $2m for his or her triumph on the 2022 Finals in Glasgow. The ITF additionally welcomed new title sponsor Gainbridge and new attire associate Tory Burch in 2022, becoming a member of Microsoft and Magellan as the worldwide sponsors of the occasion.
The ITF has additionally confirmed at this time that the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Juniors and Davis Cup Juniors Finals will happen in Cordoba, with particulars of dates and venues to be introduced sooner or later. The announcement comes as a part of a wider partnership between the ITF and the Area of Andalucia which can see the area host all ITF main staff occasions this yr, together with the Davis Cup Finals in Malaga.
David Haggerty, ITF President, mentioned: “Following a aggressive bidding course of and a few spectacular proposals from various potential hosts, we’re delighted to announce Seville because the host of this yr’s Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals. We’re very assured the town will stage a unbelievable occasion and do justice to what’s the fruits of a yr’s price of exhilarating competitors within the ladies’s World Cup of Tennis. I’m positive Seville will present the right setting for the electrical ambiance of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, and I’m wanting ahead to seeing supporters from world wide becoming a member of us for this distinctive event. All through the varied phases of the occasion this yr now we have seen how a lot it means to gamers to characterize their international locations, and I’ve little question that keenness might be on present once more in Seville.
“We’re additionally wanting ahead to bringing the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals to Cordoba later this yr. Each occasions give younger tennis gamers a unbelievable alternative to expertise the distinctive ambiance of taking part in in a staff for his or her nation, and Cordoba might be an awesome setting for that have.”
Arturo Bernal, Area of Andalucia Minister of Tourism, Tradition and Sport, mentioned: “Andalucía has earned the correct to turn into a vacation spot for essential worldwide sport occasions. Everybody desires to return to our area because of the heat welcome we give to athletes and the top-level amenities we will present. This is the reason the ITF has as soon as once more trusted us to host their main occasions. We’ll turn into the primary area to host the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup Finals in the identical yr, in addition to the junior class of each occasions. Briefly, Andalucia is as soon as once more the house of worldwide sport.”
Aside from Poland, the dropping nations from the Qualifiers (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Nice Britain, Mexico, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine) will compete within the 2023 Play-offs on 10-11 or 11-12 November, alongside the seven groups that received promotion from the three regional Group I occasions which additionally befell in April: Argentina and Colombia (from Americas Group I); Japan and Korea, Rep. (from Asia/Oceania Group I); and Hungary, Netherlands and Sweden (from Europe/Africa Group I). Serbia will take the place of Poland within the Play-off draw by advantage of being the best ending non-promoted staff from Europe/Africa Group I in 2023.
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