{"id":19973,"date":"2025-09-19T02:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/billie-jean-king-cup-2025-katie-boulter-sonay-kartal-jodie-burrage-and-fran-jones-lead-team-bidding-for-first-title\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:42:01","slug":"billie-jean-king-cup-2025-katie-boulter-sonay-kartal-jodie-burrage-and-fran-jones-lead-team-bidding-for-first-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/billie-jean-king-cup-2025-katie-boulter-sonay-kartal-jodie-burrage-and-fran-jones-lead-team-bidding-for-first-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Cup 2025: Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal, Jodie Burrage and Fran Jones lead team bidding for first title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Age: <\/b>29 <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ranking:<\/b> 55 <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Strength: <\/b>Forehand<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number two Katie Boulter, appearing in the BJK Cup for the seventh year,  brings some much-needed experience to Anne Keothavong&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She won her singles match against Germany in April&#8217;s qualifying event but lost in the singles against the Netherlands, before she and Jodie Burrage teamed up to win the decisive doubles match and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cwy0k7kwnxlo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">clinch Britain&#8217;s finals place.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has, however, been a mixed 2025 for Boulter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She missed some tournaments early in the year with a foot injury before claiming a maiden clay title at a WTA 125 event in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A second-round defeat at the first women&#8217;s Queen&#8217;s event for 52 years was part of a difficult grass-court season, and Boulter relinquished her two-year reign as British number one to Raducanu as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She achieved a fourth career win against a top-10 player &#8211; defeating Paula Badosa in the Wimbledon first round &#8211; but lost to lucky loser Solana Sierra in the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boulter did not make it past the second round at any of the four Grand Slams, admitting at Wimbledon that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c1mzp3yp5g7o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">her &#8220;moment might not come&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Boulter has often highlighted her love of competing for her country, with the BJK Cup bringing out the best in her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was in evidence against Japan on Thursday as she dropped just three games in a straight-set win over Moyuka Uchijima to secure Britain&#8217;s semi-final spot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cy5p914nq2go?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age: 29 Ranking: 55 Strength: Forehand British number two Katie Boulter, appearing in the BJK Cup for the seventh year, brings some much-needed experience to Anne Keothavong&#8217;s side. She won her singles match against Germany in April&#8217;s qualifying event but lost in the singles against the Netherlands, before she and Jodie Burrage teamed up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19975,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions\/19975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}