{"id":35216,"date":"2023-11-06T05:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=35216"},"modified":"2023-11-06T05:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T18:18:38","slug":"australia-ready-for-billie-jean-cup-finals-success-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/11\/06\/australia-ready-for-billie-jean-cup-finals-success-in-spain","title":{"rendered":"Australia ready for Billie Jean Cup Finals success in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia will be among 12 nations to compete in the 2023 Billie Jean Cup by Gainbridge Finals taking place in Seville between 7-12 November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>THE FORMAT<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The teams will compete in four groups of three nations over the first four days of the Finals, before the four group winners contest the semi-finals on Saturday 11 November.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Billie Jean Cup by Gainbridge Final will then take place on Sunday 12 November, where the winners will be crowned champions of the women\u2019s World Cup of Tennis.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>TEAM AUSTRALIA<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Daria Saville (VIC)<\/li>\n<li>Ajla Tomljanovic<\/li>\n<li>Ellen Perez<\/li>\n<li>Kimberly Birrell<\/li>\n<li>Storm Hunter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Australian team begins its 2023 finals campaign with a group-stage clash against Slovenia on Tuesday 7 November.\u00a0<\/strong>The Aussie team is determined to better a runner-up finish from last year and help Alicia Molik end her tenure as captain on a winning note.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The tie will be broadcast live in Australia on the Nine Network from Tuesday 8pm AEDT. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For live updates from the event, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billiejeankingcup.com\/en\/bjkc-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billie Jean Cup<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia will be among 12 nations to compete in the 2023 Billie Jean Cup Finals taking place in Seville between 7-12 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6373,"featured_media":35217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}