4 High 20 gamers will lead Workforce USA in Glasgow.
U.S. captain Kathy Rinaldi has chosen world No. 6 Jessica Pegula, No. 8 Coco Gauff, 18th-ranked Madison Keys, Nineteenth-ranked Danielle Collins and US Open doubles finalist Taylor Townsend to Workforce USA that can play within the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Glasgow, Scotland, November 8-Thirteenth.
Billie Jean King Cup is the World Cup of Tennis, and the six-day Finals will crown this 12 months’s champion.
The Finals will function 12 groups drawn into 4 teams to compete in a round-robin format, with the Group winners advancing to the knockout-style semifinals. The U.S. was drawn into Group D and can play Poland (Wednesday, November 9, 4 p.m. native time) and the Czech Republic (Friday, November 11, 4:30 p.m. native time) with hopes of advancing to the semifinals and past.
Every tie can be a best-of-three competitors with two singles matches and one doubles match performed on an indoor exhausting court docket inside Glasgow’s Emirates Enviornment. The total subject, schedule and ticketing info is offered at billiejeankingcup.com.
America is the all-time chief with 18 Billie Jean King Cup titles and can hope so as to add to that this 12 months.
Pegula, 28, is ranked No. 6 in each singles and doubles and is the USA’s top-ranked singles participant. The Buffalo native reached the quarterfinals at 3 of 4 majors this 12 months and helped the U.S. staff advance to the Finals by profitable its Qualifying tie in April. That is her third Billie Jean King Cup nomination.
Gauff, 18, is ranked No. 8 in singles and No. 5 in doubles and held the world No. 1 doubles rating this summer season. The Delray Seaside, Fla., native reached the singles remaining at Roland Garros this 12 months, the youngest American to succeed in a significant singles remaining since Serena Williams in 1999, and was a Junior Billie Jean King Cup champion in 2018. That is her second Billie Jean King Cup nomination.
Keys, 27, has been ranked as excessive as No. 7. A 2017 US Open singles finalist, the Rock Island, Ailing., native and Orlando resident reached the semifinals of the Australian Open this 12 months and defeated world No. 1 Iga Swiatek this summer season. That is her seventh Billie Jean King Cup nomination since debuting in 2014.
Collins, 28, has been ranked as excessive as No. 7. The St. Petersburg, Fla., native reached the finals of the Australian Open this 12 months, and has been ranked within the High 40 5 out of six years since profitable her second NCAA singles title in 2016. That is her fourth Billie Jean King Cup nomination.
Townsend, 26, is ranked No. 34 in doubles and No. 195 in singles. That is the debut Billie Jean King Cup nomination for the Chicago native who returned to competitors in April after almost two years away to offer delivery to her son. Townsend was ranked as excessive as No. 61 in singles in 2018 and is a former world junior No. 1. She received the Junior Billie Jean King Cup title beneath then-captain Rinaldi in 2012.
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