Billie Jean King Cup 2025: Boulter, Raducanu Headline Great Britain Team

Great Britain have named their team for the upcoming Billie Jean King Cup, with Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal, Emma Raducanu and Jodie Burrage all included. 

The tournament, which starts on September 16, will see Great Britain take part in the competition for the third time in the last four years. 

Captain Anne Keothavong and her squad are seeded second for the tournament, only behind Italy, and begin their campaign on September 18 against Japan in the quarter-finals.

Should they progress, they will take on either Kazakhstan or 18-time champions United States, and they will fancy their chances given their players' recent performances. 

Kartal produced her best display at a grand slam event at Wimbledon earlier this month, reaching the fourth round before being knocked out by Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. 

Raducanu exited in the third round at the All England Club after defeat to Aryna Sabalenka, and her position in the rankings will give Keothavong a decision to make.

Currently, the former US Open champion is ranked as the British number three, behind both Boulter and Kartal. 

Raducanu is 46th in the WTA rankings, one place behind Kartal, while Boulter is in 41st. Burrage, meanwhile, is ranked 116th in the world. 

The competition format sees the second-best players from each country face off in the singles, before the number one ranked players compete in a second singles rubber.

If needed, they go to a doubles match to decide the winner. 

However, if Raducanu is still the British number three by the time the competition starts, the only way she will be able to play in the singles is if Keothavong decides not to pick Boulter or Kartal for those matches. 

Raducanu was not part of Britain's squad for their qualifier ties in April. 

Kartal, making her team debut, won both of her singles matches against Germany's Jule Niemeier and the Netherlands' Eva Vedder.

Boulter beat Tatjana Maria in the tie against Germany but lost her singles match the following day to Dutchwoman Suzan Lamens.

However, Boulter teamed up with Burrage to beat Lamens and Demi Schuurs in a winner-take-all doubles rubber.