2025 Billie Jean King Cup

The 2025 Billie Jean King Cup was the 62nd edition of the Billie Jean King Cup, a tournament between national teams in women's tennis.<br/> Defending champions Italy defeated United States 2-0 in the final.

Andorra, Benin, Sudan and Suriname made their first appearances in the tournament.

Billie Jean King Cup finals

Date: 16–21 September 2025 <br/> Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, Shenzhen, China <br/> Surface: Hard indoor

Eight nations will take part in the Finals. The qualification is as follows:

• 6 qualifying round group winners
• 1 defending champion (Italy)
• 1 host nation (China)

Seeds

Draw

Qualifying round

Date: 10–13 April 2025 <br/> Venues: Pat Rafter Arena, Brisbane, Australia (hard, outdoors) <br/> RT Torax Arena, Ostrava, Czechia (hard, indoors) <br/> Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo, Japan (hard, indoors) <br/> Sportcampus Zuiderpark, The Hague, Netherlands (clay, indoors) <br/> Radomskie Centrum Sportu, Radom, Poland (clay, indoors) <br/> Peugeot Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia (hard, indoors)

Format: Round-robin - 6 groups of 3 teams

These eighteen teams were:

• 11 teams from the 2024 Finals
• 7 winning teams from the 2024 play-offs (China as a host automatically qualified for the Finals)

The six winning teams from the qualifying round will play at the Finals and losing teams will play at the 2025 play-offs.

#: Nations Ranking as of 3 December 2024.

Teams from Finals

• (#2)
• (#3)
• (#4)
• (#5)
• (#6)
• (#7)
• (#9)
• (#10)
• (#11)
• (#13)
• (#14)

Teams from Play-offs

• (#8)
• (#12)
• (#17)
• (#19)
• (#20)
• (#24)
• (#27)

Results

G = Group, T = Ties, M = Matches, S = Sets, (H) = Hosts

Billie Jean King Cup play-offs

Date: 14-16 November 2025 <br/> Venues: Club Sonoma, Monterrey, Mexico <br/> Arena Gorzow, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland <br/> Córdoba Lawn Tennis Club, Córdoba, Argentina <br/> Arena Varazdin, Varaždin, Croatia <br/> Domain Tennis Centre, Hobart, Australia <br/> Tennis Club Ismaning, Ismaning, Germany <br/> S M Krishna Tennis Stadium, Bengaluru, India

Twenty-one teams will play for seven spots in the 2026 qualifying round, in the round-robin format (7 groups of 3 teams).

These twenty-one teams are:

• Twelve losing teams from the qualifying round, in April 2025
• Nine winning teams from their Group I zone

Seven winners will advance to the 2026 qualifying round while losers will contest in their respective regional Group I event in 2026.

#: Nations Ranking as of 14 April 2025.

Teams from qualifying round

• (#5)
• (#8)
• (#9)
• (#10)
• (#12)
• (#13)
• (#14)
• (#15)
• (#16)
• (#21)
• (#23)
• (#26)

Teams from Group I zones

• (#18)
• (#19)
• (#20)
• (#24)
• (#25)
• (#27)
• (#28)
• (#30)
• (#31)

Results

G = Group, T = Ties, M = Matches, S = Sets, (H) = Hosts

For the first time since the introduction of regional group in 1992, was relegated to regional group.

Americas Zone

Group I

Date: 8–12 April 2025 <br/> Venue: Mouratoglou Tennis Center, Guadalajara, Mexico (Hard) <br/>

Participating teams

• '

• '

Promotions/Relegations

• and were promoted to the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup play-offs.
• ' and ' were relegated to Americas Zone Group II in 2026.

Group II

Date: 18–21 June 2025 <br/> Venue: Club Lawn Tennis de la Exposición, Lima, Peru (Clay)<br/>

Participating teams

• '
• '

Promotions/Relegations

• and were promoted to Americas Zone Group I in 2026.
• ' and ' were relegated to Americas Zone Group III in 2026.

Group III

Date: 18–23 August 2025 <br/> Venue: Federacion Salvadorena de Tenis, Santa Tecla, El Salvador (Hard) <br/>

Participating teams

Withdrawn

Inactive teams

Promotions

• and were promoted to Americas Zone Group II in 2026.

Asia/Oceania Zone

Group I

Date: 8–12 April 2025<br/> Venue: MSLTA School of Tennis, Pune, India (Hard) <br/>

Participating teams

• '
• '

Promotions/Relegations

• and were promoted to the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup play-offs.
• ' and ' were relegated to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2026.

Group II

Date: 16–22 June 2025 <br/> Venue: National Tennis Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Hard)<br/>

Participating teams

• '

• '

Promotions/Relegations

• and were promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group I in 2026.
• ' and ' were relegated to Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2026.

Group III

Date: Event A: 16–21 June 2025; Event B: 10–15 November 2025 <br/> Venue: Event A: Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Clay); Event B: NovaWorld Tennis Gardens, Phan Thiet, Vietnam (Hard)<br/>

Participating teams

Event A:

Event B:

Withdrawn

Inactive teams

Promotions

• and were promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2026.

Europe/Africa Zone

Group I

Date: 8–12 April 2025<br/> Venue: SEB Arena, Vilnius, Lithuania (Hard) <br/>

Participating teams

• '
• '

Promotions/Relegations

• , , and advanced to the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup play-offs, while was later promoted as the highest ranked non-promoted team in each 2025 Regional Group I event.
• ' and ' were relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2026.

Group II

Date: 7–12 April 2025 <br/> Venue: Herodotou Tennis Academy, Larnaca, Cyprus (Hard)<br/>

Participating teams

• '

• '

Promotions/Relegations

• and were promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 2026.
• ' and ' were relegated to Europe Zone Group III in 2026.

Group III Europe

Date: 16–22 June 2025 <br/> Venue: Chișinău Arena Tennis Club, Chișinău, Moldova (Hard) <br/>

Participating teams

Inactive teams

• (suspended)

• (suspended)

Promotion

• was promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2026.

Group III Africa

Date: 4–10 August 2025 <br/> Venue: Central Tennis Club, Windhoek, Namibia (Hard)<br/>

Participating teams

• '

Promotion/Relegation

• was promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2026.
• ' was relegated to Africa Zone Group IV in 2026.

Group IV Africa

Date: 14–20 July 2025 <br/> Venue: Kicukiro Ecology Tennis Club, Kigali, Rwanda (Clay)<br/>

Participating teams

Withdrawn

Promotion

• was promoted to Africa Zone Group III in 2026.

References

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