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Australia Billie Jean King Cup team

Australian women's tennis team

Field	Value
Name	Australia
Type	Fed
Image	Flag of Australia.svg
Captain	Alicia Molik (since 2013)
ITF Rank	1 (19 April 2022)
ITF max	1
ITF max date	8 November 2021
ITF min	26
ITF min date	11 July 2006
Colors	green & gold
First year	1963
Years played	58
Ties played	186 (132–54)
WG played	41 (95–38)
Titles	7 (1964, 1965, 1968, 1970,
1971, 1973, 1974)
Runners-up	12 (1963, 1969, 1975, 1976,
1977, 1978, 1979, 1980,
1984, 1993, 2019, 2022)
Best
Player wins	Wendy Turnbull (46–16)
Singles wins	Samantha Stosur (29–17)
Doubles wins	Wendy Turnbull (29–8)
Best doubles	Kerry Reid /
Wendy Turnbull (11–4)
Most ties	Wendy Turnbull (45)
Most years	Rennae Stubbs (17)

Note

the women's team

1971, 1973, 1974) | Runners-up = 12 (1963, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1993, 2019, 2022) Wendy Turnbull (11–4)

The Australia Billie Jean King Cup team represents Australia in international women's tennis and is directed by Tennis Australia. The team played in the first ever tournament in 1963, and is one of four teams that has taken part in every single edition since.

The Australian national team is one of the most successful in world tennis. They are seven-time world champions and have reached a total of eighteen finals, second highest as Runners-up all-time behind United States. Between 1963 and 1980, the Australian team played in every single final except for three. However, in recent times the Australian team has had a comparative lack of success, only appearing in the World Group five times between 1995 and 2010, and never going beyond the first round. However, the team has experienced a resurgence in recent times, accumulating a 15–6 win–loss record since 2005 and returning to the World Group in 2011 and 2013. Samantha Stosur holds the record for most singles wins by an Australian in Fed Cup, while Wendy Turnbull holds the record for most doubles wins, most overall tie wins, and most ties participated in.

Alicia Molik is the current captain and has held that position since 2013. Currently, the team is No. 1 in the ITF rankings, their highest-ever rank since the inception of the rankings in 2002.

Current team

DOB	First	Last	Ties	Win/Loss	Ranks	Sin	Dou	Tot
11 August 1994	2021	2023	9	6–2	4–2	10–4	122	3
10 October 1995	2021	2023	4	0–0	1–3	1–3	363	8
27 October 2005	–	–	0	0–0	0–0	0–0	134	357
15 December 1989	2016	2016	2	0–1	0–1	0–2	98	334
5 March 1994	2016	2023	8	4–7	1–1	5–8	115	110

History

Main article: History of the Australia Fed Cup team

Players

Forty-four players have represented Fed Cup for Australia since its inception in 1963. Alicia Molik, the current captain, is tenth, having played in twenty-two ties, one less than the highest active player Samantha Stosur. taking the record from current third Dianne Balestrat. Balestrat was also the youngest person to reach twenty ties, at 23 years old. Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong Cawley share the record of people to reach twenty ties to have the highest winning percentage, with 35–5 or 0.875%.

Stosur holds the record for most Australia Fed Cup singles wins. She had her first win in 2004 against Napaporn Tongsalee, and went on to take the record from Balestrat nine years later after defeating Romina Oprandi in 2013. Court holds the record for most prolific singles player, averaging once win for every tie she played and also accumulating a 100% singles winning percentage. Nicole Bradtke was the youngest person to achieve her tenth win, doing so in April 1995 against Radka Zrubáková while aged 22 years, 1 month. Current captain Molik is once again tenth on this factor, sharing the record with Bradtke at twelve.

Turnbull holds the record for most doubles wins, accumulating twenty-nine wins before her final tie in 1988 against West Germany, and taking this record from Kerry Melville Reid, the current third, in 1982. Turnbull and Melville Reid together also hold the record for most doubles wins as a team, with eleven. Of the active players, Casey Dellacqua, tenth, has the most doubles wins at seven.

Jelena Dokic was the youngest player to compete for Australia, and also the youngest person to win a match for Australia when she defeated Mariana Díaz Oliva in 1998 aged 15 years, 3 months. Rennae Stubbs, on the other hand, was the oldest player to compete and win a match, winning her last match aged 39 years, 1 month, and playing her final tie aged 39 years, 10 months.

#	Name	AUS career	Ties	Tot W/L
1		1977–1988	45	46–16
2		1992–2011	41	28–13
3		1974–1983	37	35–11
4		1984–1994	31	24–13
5	****	2003–	30	36–18
6		1967–1979	29	37–10
7		1970–1982	26	35–5
8		1990–2001	23	11–21
8		1981–1989	23	20–6
10		1999–2010	22	18–21

Most singles wins

#	Name	AUS career	Ties	Sin W/L	Dou W/L
1	****	2003–	29	29–18	7–0
2		1974–1983	37	24–9	11–2
3		1970–1982	26	22–3	13–2
4		1963–1971	20	20–0	15–5
4		1967–1979	29	20–4	17–6
6		1977–1988	45	17–8	29–8
7		1981–1989	23	16–6	4–0
8		1998–2012	17	15–2	1–1
9		1998–2007	20	14–12	1–1
10		1988–1996	17	12–8	6–1
10		1999–2010	22	12–15	6–6

Most doubles wins

#	AUS career	Ties	Dou W/L	Sin W/L
1	1977–1988	45	29–8	17–8
2	1992–2011	41	28–10	0–3
3	1967–1979	29	17–6	20–4
3	1984–1994	31	17–5	7–8
5	1963–1971	20	15–5	20–0
6	1970–1982	26	13–2	22–3
6	2006–2018	21	13–4	6–5
8	1965–1970	15	12–3	6–1
9	1974–1983	37	11–2	24–9
10	1980–1983	13	9–3	2–0

Top ten players

Singles

Doubles

:*Active players in bold, statistics as of 1 February 2016.

Results

Tournament	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	W–L	Win–loss	3–1	4–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	4–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	2–1	4–0	4–0	3–1	4–1	4–1	4–1	4–1	4–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	4–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	4–1	1–1
Federation Cup
World Group	F	W	W	SF	SF	W	F	W	W	SF	W	W	F	F	F	F	F	F	SF	SF	QF	F	SF	QF	QF	QF	SF	2R	2R	SF	F	2R	92–25

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	W–L
Fed Cup
World Group	A	A	A	A	A	11th	7th	1R	1R	1R	A	A	A	A	A	A	QF	A	QF	SF	QF	1–13
World Group play-offs	L	A	L	A	A	NH	W	W	W	L	A	A	A	A	A	W	L	W	W	A	L	7–5
World Group II	W	L	W	L	L	Not Held	A	A	L	A	A	W	A	W	A	A	A	4–4
World Group II play-offs	A	W	A	W	W	A	W	L	A	W	A	A	A	A	A	A	8–1
Asia/Oceania Zone Group I	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	2nd	W	A	4th	W	A	A	A	A	A	A	12–2
	7	10	6	8	5	9

Records

In terms of time, the longest rubber involving an Australian player was Fabiola Zuluaga's 2003, 2–6, 7–6(7–4), 8–10, defeat of Alicia Molik, which took two-hour, forty-three minutes. However, the longest rubber in terms of games was Margaret Court and Kerry Reid's 1968, 9–7, 3–6, 14–12, defeat of Winnie Shaw and Virginia Wade, which lasted fifty-one games and holds the overall Fed Cup record. This match also holds the Australian Fed Cup record of most games in a set.

The longest tie in terms of time and games was the Italy–Australia match in 2011, which lasted for ten hours and twenty-six minutes and featured a hundred and forty-nine games. The match also holds the overall Fed Cup record for most tiebreaks in a tie with five. The Australian Fed Cup record for longest tiebreak was also set in 2011, with Anastasia Rodionova's, 6–7(3–7), 6–7(12–14), loss to Olga Savchuk.

Australia was also featured in two of the five 0–2 comebacks featured since inception. The Australian team defeated Canada in the competition's first ever 0–2 comeback in 1996, while Austria beat the team three years later for the second event.

The Australian team also holds the record for longest streak of consecutive finals, from 1973 to 1980. It was during this period that they accumulated their longest tie winning streak at eleven.

Longest winning streak

Year	Competition	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Result
1973	World Group, Second Round	2 May	Bad Homburg (FRG)		3–0	Won
World Group, Quarterfinals	4 May		3–0	Won
World Group, Semifinals	5 May		3–0	Won
World Group, Final	6 May		3–0	Won
1974	World Group, Second Round	May	Naples (ITA)		2–0	Won
World Group, Quarterfinals		3–0	Won
World Group, Semifinals		3–0	Won
World Group, Final		2–1	Won
1975	World Group, Second Round	May	Aix-en-Provence (FRA)		2–0	Won
World Group, Quarterfinals		3–0	Won
World Group, Semifinals		2–1	Won
World Group, Final		0–3	Lost

Finals: 19 (7 titles, 12 runners-up)

Outcome	Year	Venue	Surface	Team
Runner-up	1963	Queen's Club, London, United Kingdom	Grass	Margaret Smith
Jan O'Neill
Lesley Turner		Darlene Hard
Billie Jean Moffitt	1–2
Winner	1964	Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, United States	Grass	Margaret Smith
Lesley Turner
Robyn Ebbern		Billie Jean Moffitt
Nancy Richey
Karen Hantze Susman	2–1
Winner	1965	Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia	Grass	Margaret Smith
Lesley Turner
Judy Tegart		Billie Jean Moffitt
Carole Caldwell Graebner	2–1
Winner	1968	Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France	Red clay	Margaret Court
Kerry Melville		Astrid Suurbeck
Marijke Jansen
Lidy Venneboer	3–0
Runner-up	1969	Athens Tennis Club, Athens, Greece	Red clay	Margaret Court
Kerry Melville
Judy Tegart		Nancy Richey
Julie Heldman
Jane Bartkowicz	1–2
Winner	1970	Freiburg Tennis Club, Freiburg, West Germany	Red clay	Judy Tegart
Karen Krantzcke		Helga Niessen
Helga Hösl	3–0
Winner	1971	Royal King's Park Tennis Club, Perth, Australia	Grass	Margaret Court
Evonne Goolagong
Lesley Hunt		Virginia Wade
Ann Jones
Winnie Shaw	3–0
Winner	1973	Bad Homburg Tennis Club, Bad Homburg, West Germany	Red clay	Evonne Goolagong
Patricia Coleman
Janet Young		Patricia Walkden
Brenda Kirk	3–0
Winner	1974	Naples Tennis Club, Naples, Italy	Red clay	Evonne Goolagong
Dianne Fromholtz
Janet Young		Julie Heldman
Jeanne Evert
Sharon Walsh	2–1
Runner-up	1975	Aixoise C.C., Aix-en-Provence, France	Red clay	Evonne Goolagong
Helen Gourlay
Dianne Fromholtz		Martina Navratilova
Renáta Tomanová	0–3
Runner-up	1976	The Spectrum, Philadelphia, United States	Carpet (i)	Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Kerry Melville Reid
Dianne Fromholtz		Billie Jean King
Rosemary Casals	1–2
Runner-up	1977	Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, United Kingdom	Grass	Kerry Melville Reid
Dianne Fromholtz
Wendy Turnbull		Chris Evert
Billie Jean King
Rosemary Casals	1–2
Runner-up	1978	Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia	Grass	Kerry Melville Reid
Wendy Turnbull
Dianne Fromholtz		Chris Evert
Tracy Austin
Billie Jean King	1–2
Runner-up	1979	RSHE Club Campo, Madrid, Spain	Red clay	Kerry Melville Reid
Wendy Turnbull
Dianne Fromholtz		Chris Evert Lloyd
Tracy Austin
Billie Jean King
Rosemary Casals	0–3
Runner-up	1980	Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, West Berlin, West Germany	Red clay	Dianne Fromholtz
Wendy Turnbull
Susan Leo		Chris Evert Lloyd
Tracy Austin
Rosemary Casals
Kathy Jordan	0–3
Runner-up	1984	Esporte Clube Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil	Red clay	Elizabeth Sayers
Wendy Turnbull
Anne Minter
Elizabeth Minter		Hana Mandlíková
Helena Suková
Iva Budařová
Marcela Skuherská	1–2
Runner-up	1993	Waldstadion T.C., Frankfurt, Germany	Red clay	Nicole Provis
Michelle Jaggard-Lai
Elizabeth Smylie
Rennae Stubbs		Conchita Martínez
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Cristina Torrens Valero	0–3
Runner-up	2019	Perth Arena, Perth, Australia	Hard	Ajla Tomljanović
Ashleigh Barty
Samantha Stosur		Kristina Mladenovic
Caroline Garcia
Pauline Parmentier	2-3
Runner-up	2022	Emirates Arena, Glasgow, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Ajla Tomljanović
Storm Sanders
Samantha Stosur		Belinda Bencic
Jil Teichmann	0-2

Head-to-head record

	1–2	33.33%	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–0

|} :*Previous champions in bold, teams that have been ranked no. 1 in italics, statistics as of 19 April 2015.

Notes

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