What To Expect

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What To Expect

The 2024 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals will take place in Malaga and will feature 12 teams.

Canada, as 2023 world champions, Italy, as 2023 runners-up, hosts Spain and wild card Czechia qualified automatically. They will be joined by the eight winners of the 2024 Qualifiers - Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and USA.

Round one sees four ties being contested from Wednesday 13 to Friday 15 November, followed by the quarter-finals on 16-17 November, the semi-finals on 18-19 November, and the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup final to be played on Wednesday 20 November.

King won a record 20th Wimbledon title in 1979, a record she now shares with Martina Navratilova, and in 1980, she claimed her 39th and final Grand Slam title at the US Open. In 1987, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

She was listed in Life Magazine's "100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century" in 1990 and received the ITF's Philippe Chatrier Award in 2003. In 2006, the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center was dedicated in her honor, and in 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

In 2019, King was named the Fed Cup Global Ambassador, and in 2020, the Fed Cup was officially renamed the Billie Jean King Cup in her honor.