Koharu Nishikawa, Emerson Jones and Tahlia Kokkinis will characterize Australia on the 2023 Junior Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Spain this week.
Cordoba, Spain, 6 November 2023 | tennis.com.au
Three of the nation’s high junior tennis gamers will characterize Australia at the 2023 Junior Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Spain this week.
Queensland abilities Emerson Jones and Tahlia Kokkinis, together with Victoria’s Koharu Nishikawa, will don the inexperienced and gold as they characterize their nation with delight on this prestigious worldwide workforce competitors for ladies aged 16 and beneath.
The 15-year-old Jones just lately broke into the world’s high 10 within the junior rankings, turning into solely the third Aussie woman to attain the feat for the reason that introduction of the present rating system in 2004.
Olivia Wealthy is accompanying the workforce as captain.
Australia is one among 16 nations to qualify for the finals, which will probably be performed in Cordoba from 6-12 November.
“The women have been coaching onerous in preparation for our first tie towards Canada,” Wealthy mentioned.
“It’s such an unbelievable expertise and privilege for them to characterize the nation and compete towards the world’s greatest junior gamers.
“The workforce is able to showcase their combating Aussie spirit!”
Groups compete in round-robin ties for the primary three days of the competitors, with the top-two nations in every group then progressing to the knockout stage.
The Australian workforce has a relaxation day scheduled for Thursday and can journey to the Spanish metropolis of Seville to assist Australia’s Billie Jean King Cup, who’re scheduled to face Kazakhstan in a round-robin tie.
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The USA are the reigning Junior Billie Jean King Cup champions, having defeated the Czech Republic with a dominant 3-0 win on the last in Antalya, Turkey in 2022. The People have received the title in 4 of the previous 5 years.
Workforce Australia will probably be trying to emulate the success of our 2011 workforce, which was the final time that Australia claimed the title.
Earlier successful groups on the finals have featured the likes of Ash Barty (Australia, 2011), Iga Swiatek (Poland, 2016) and Coco Gauff (USA, 2018), underlining the significance of the occasion by way of participant improvement.
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