Pat Rafter Area will host Australia’s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier from 10-12 April, with tickets on sale from 3pm AEST by way of Ticketmaster on Thursday 20 February.
Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19 February 2025 | Tennis Australia
Australia’s top-ranked girl, Kimberly Birrell, will lead the Tradition Amp Australian Billie Jean King Cup staff once they start their 2025 marketing campaign in Brisbane in April.
Pat Rafter Area will host the upcoming qualifying spherical for the second consecutive yr from 10-12 April 2025.
This yr, six teams of three groups will compete in a round-robin format throughout three days, with the six group winners progressing to the Billie Jean King Cup finals in Shenzen, China.
Australia will host Kazakhstan and Colombia with every tie set to function two singles and one doubles match.
Birrell, 26, is happy to be main the Australian staff in her house state of Queensland.
She turned the No.1 Australian girl in January and hit a career-high rating of world No.75 final week.
“It’s unimaginable to put on the inexperienced and gold. It’s what I dreamt of doing as a child, watching and eager to be an expert tennis participant,” Birrell mentioned.
“In Australia, we have now such a wealthy historical past of the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup, so to be part of that now, and to play right here at house, in Australia, is extremely particular.
“I really feel so at house right here on this court docket (in Brisbane), I’ve had so many particular reminiscences, watching and taking part in within the Brisbane Worldwide and coaching right here plenty of the yr. To get to play a house tie so near the place I grew up is completely wonderful.
“We are able to’t wait to play in entrance of a house crowd, particularly as a result of my family and friends will have the ability to come and watch.”
In October, Birrell reached her first WTA last in Osaka earlier than defeating world No.8 Emma Navarro on the best way to the Brisbane Worldwide quarterfinals at the beginning of the yr.
On the Australian Open, Birrell and John-Patrick Smith reached the blended doubles last, earlier than she then reached the singles quarterfinals in Singapore and gained an ITF W75 event two weeks in the past.
Captain Sam Stosur is delighted to have the ability to affirm the primary participant for the Billie Jean King Cup qualifier occasion.
“Kim is presently the No.1 ranked participant in Australia on the ladies’s aspect and at her highest profession rating which is unbelievable,” Stosur mentioned.
“She has performed tonnes of tennis in current months, she is feeling actually assured and I feel in her greatest kind ever, so we’re actually excited to have her again within the staff as soon as once more. I do know she is pumped.”
Stosur mentioned taking part in at Pat Rafter Area is a well-recognized feeling.
“Everybody loves taking part in in Brisbane. It’s a world-class venue and we’ve had some nice success there over time,” she mentioned. “The climate is all the time good, it is going to be faculty holidays and we all know Queenslanders love coming to the tennis, they actually get behind the staff and that’s what it’s all about.”
The remaining members of the staff shall be confirmed in mid-March.
Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Qualifiers
Venue: Pat Rafter Area, Brisbane
Floor: Onerous, Outdoor
Schedule
- Thursday 10 April 12pm AEST – Australia v Kazakhstan
- Friday 11 April 12pm AEST – Colombia v Kazakhstan
- Saturday 12 April 12pm AEST – Australia v Colombia
Tickets on sale
Tickets to the Billie Jean King Cup Qualifier that includes Australia, Kazakhstan and Colombia go on sale Thursday 20 February by way of Ticketmaster.
- Early chicken tickets can be found from 11am AEST earlier than most of the people on-sale at 3pm AEST
- Children go free throughout the three days of tennis
- Grownup tickets from $20
- Two-day ticket packages for the Australian classes from $30
Quick information
- The Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Qualifiers will happen week commencing 7 April
- In 2025, six teams of three groups will contest the qualifying spherical on a round-robin foundation
- Australia, Czechia, Japan, Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia will host qualifiers in April. Host nations had been drawn at random from purposes made by eligible nations
- Group D will see Australia host Kazakhstan and Colombia at Pat Rafter Area in Brisbane
- Three ties shall be performed throughout three days. Every tie will include two singles matches and a doubles match
- The six group winners in April will advance to the finals in Shenzen, China. The finals will transition from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team occasion in 2025
- Hosts China and 2024 champions Italy will spherical out the highest eight within the finals
- Brisbane final hosted a Billie Jean King Cup tie in April 2024 when Australia defeated Mexico 4-0
- Australia is one in all 4 nations to have competed within the Billie Jean King Cup competitors yearly, and sits second on the all-time champions checklist
- Australia is presently the No.5-ranked nation in Billie Jean King Cup rankings
- Evonne Goolagong, Dianne Fromholtz and Janet Younger final led Australia to Fed Cup victory in 1974
- The Australian staff has completed runners-up twice in recent times, in 2019 and 2022
- Billie Jean King Cup is the largest girls’s staff occasion in tennis. It’s the girls’s equal of the Davis Cup and was launched in 1963 to have fun the fiftieth anniversary of the Worldwide Tennis Federation.
- In 2025, a report 146 nations will compete within the competitors.
#Birrell #lead #Australias #Billie #Jean #King #Cup #staff #Brisbane #qualifier #February #Information #Information #Options #Information #Occasions