Pat Rafter Enviornment will host Australia’s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier from 10-12 April, with tickets on sale from 3pm AEST through Ticketmaster on Thursday 20 February.
Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 19 February 2025 | Tennis Australia
Australia’s top-ranked lady, Kimberly Birrell, will lead the Tradition Amp Australian Billie Jean King Cup crew once they start their 2025 marketing campaign in Brisbane in April.
Pat Rafter Enviornment will host the upcoming qualifying spherical for the second consecutive 12 months from 10-12 April 2025.
This 12 months, 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 characteristic two singles and one doubles match.
Birrell, 26, is happy to be main the Australian crew in her dwelling state of Queensland.
She grew to become the No.1 Australian lady 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 stated.
“In Australia, we’ve got 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 dwelling, in Australia, is extremely particular.
“I really feel so at dwelling right here on this courtroom (in Brisbane), I’ve had so many particular reminiscences, watching and enjoying within the Brisbane Worldwide and coaching right here plenty of the 12 months. To get to play a house tie so near the place I grew up is totally 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 be capable of come and watch.”
In October, Birrell reached her first WTA ultimate in Osaka earlier than defeating world No.8 Emma Navarro on the way in which to the Brisbane Worldwide quarterfinals at first of the 12 months.
On the Australian Open, Birrell and John-Patrick Smith reached the blended doubles ultimate, earlier than she then reached the singles quarterfinals in Singapore and gained an ITF W75 match two weeks in the past.
Captain Sam Stosur is delighted to have the ability to verify 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 facet and at her highest profession rating which is incredible,” Stosur stated.
“She has performed tonnes of tennis in current months, she is feeling actually assured and I believe in her finest type ever, so we’re actually excited to have her again within the crew as soon as once more. I do know she is pumped.”
Stosur stated enjoying at Pat Rafter Enviornment is a well-known feeling.
“Everybody loves enjoying in Brisbane. It’s a world-class venue and we’ve had some nice success there through the years,” she stated. “The climate is all the time good, it will likely be faculty holidays and we all know Queenslanders love coming to the tennis, they actually get behind the crew and that’s what it’s all about.”
The remaining members of the crew can be confirmed in mid-March.
Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Qualifiers
Venue: Pat Rafter Enviornment, 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 through Ticketmaster.
- Early chook tickets can be found from 11am AEST earlier than most people on-sale at 3pm AEST
- Youngsters go free throughout the three days of tennis
- Grownup tickets from $20
- Two-day ticket packages for the Australian classes from $30
Quick info
- 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 have been drawn at random from purposes made by eligible nations
- Group D will see Australia host Kazakhstan and Colombia at Pat Rafter Enviornment in Brisbane
- Three ties can be performed throughout three days. Every tie will encompass 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 considered one of 4 nations to have competed within the Billie Jean King Cup competitors yearly, and sits second on the all-time champions record
- 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 crew has completed runners-up twice in recent times, in 2019 and 2022
- Billie Jean King Cup is the most important ladies’s crew occasion in tennis. It’s the ladies’s equal of the Davis Cup and was launched in 1963 to rejoice the fiftieth anniversary of the Worldwide Tennis Federation.
- In 2025, a document 146 nations will compete within the competitors.
