{"id":27353,"date":"2025-03-13T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/billie-jean-king-cup-great-britain-name-five-player-team-for-qualifiers-in-april\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:44:42","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-great-britain-name-five-player-team-for-qualifiers-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/billie-jean-king-cup-great-britain-name-five-player-team-for-qualifiers-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup: Great Britain name five-player team for qualifiers in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With the change in format, the competition will be even more challenging but I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ve got a group of players who will rise to the occasion and give it their best,&#8221; GB captain Anne Keothavong said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Representing our country is always an honour and we look forward to the challenge with the fans&#8217; support behind us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cdrdmr2n4v6o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">lost against Slovakia<\/a> in the semi-finals of the Billie Jean King Cup in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heather Watson has dropped out of the squad, with British number three Kartal named in her place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal, 23, is involved for just the second time after linking up with Great Britain for an away tie against the Czech Republic in 2021, although she did not feature in that 3-2 loss in Prague.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cn8921wje9wo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With the change in format, the competition will be even more challenging but I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ve got a group of players who will rise to the occasion and give it their best,&#8221; GB captain Anne Keothavong said. &#8220;Representing our country is always an honour and we look forward to the challenge with the fans&#8217; support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27355,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27353\/revisions\/27355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}