{"id":2414,"date":"2023-10-13T06:46:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/billie-jean-king-cup-katie-boulter-leads-top-four-ranked-players-for-britains-crucial-sweden-play-off-tennis-news\/13\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T06:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T10:46:52","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-katie-boulter-leads-top-four-ranked-players-for-britains-crucial-sweden-play-off-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/billie-jean-king-cup-katie-boulter-leads-top-four-ranked-players-for-britains-crucial-sweden-play-off-tennis-news\/13\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup: Katie Boulter leads top-four ranked players for Britain’s crucial Sweden play-off | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katie Boulter heads the Great Britain Billie Jean King Cup team that will take
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The 27-year-old has established herself as Britain’s clear number one this season in the absence of the injured Emma Raducanu and is currently ranked 52.<\/p>\n

Jodie Burrage is the only other top-100 player available to captain Anne Keothavong’s team and she could make her debut in the competition having been overlooked for April’s defeat by France in Coventry.<\/p>\n

Harriet Dart and Heather Watson, who were both key players in Britain’s run to the semi-finals of the competition in Glasgow last November but have dropped down the rankings this season, make up the quartet.<\/p>\n

Doubles pair Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls, who have won three of their four matches representing Britain, have been left out this time.<\/p>\n

Britain must beat the Swedes to stay in the top tier of the competition and give themselves another shot at reaching the finals next year.<\/p>\n

Keothavong said: “I’m delighted that all our strongest-ranked players have made themselves available for the Billie Jean King Cup tie versus Sweden next month.<\/p>\n

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“We are very excited to have yet another opportunity to play in front of a home crowd, especially at the Copper Box Arena, where the fans were so instrumental in helping get us over the line when we last played there a few years ago.<\/p>\n

“Finally, being able to captain this team is always a huge privilege and to bring live tennis back to where I grew up means a great deal to me on a personal level.”<\/p>\n

Britain defeated Kazakhstan at the Copper Box in 2019 to finally climb out of the Europe\/Africa zone but the victory came at a cost for Boulter, who suffered a stress fracture in her back that ruled her out for six months.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Katie Boulter heads the Great Britain Billie Jean King Cup team that will take on Sweden at London’s Copper Box on November