2025 Billie Jean King Cup

2025 Billie Jean King Cup
Details
Duration7 April – 16 November 2025
Edition62nd
Achievements (singles)
2024
2026 →

The 2025 Billie Jean King Cup will be the 62nd edition of the Billie Jean King Cup, a tournament between national teams in women's tennis.[1]

Billie Jean King Cup finals

Date: 16–21 September 2025[2]
Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, Shenzhen, China[3]
Surface: Hard indoor

8 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)
Participating teams

China (H)

Great Britain

Italy (TH)

Japan

Kazakhstan

Spain

Ukraine

United States

Seeds

Draw

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
         
1  Italy
   China
   
 
4  Spain
   Ukraine
   
   
   Kazakhstan
3  United States
   
 
   Japan
2  Great Britain

Qualifying round

Date: 10-13 April 2025
Venues: Pat Rafter Arena, Brisbane, Australia (hard, outdoors)
RT Torax Arena, Ostrava, Czechia (hard, indoors)
Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo, Japan (hard, indoors)
Sportcampus Zuiderpark, The Hague, Netherlands (clay, indoors)
Radomskie Centrum Sportu, Radom, Poland (clay, indoors)
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.[4]

Qualifying Round Results

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

G Winner Runner-up Third
Country T M S Country T M S Country T M S
A  Japan (H) 2–0 5–1 11–4  Canada [1] 1–1 4–2 9–5  Romania 0–2 0–6 1–12
B  Spain 2–0 5–1 10–3  Czech Republic [2] (H) 1–1 3–3 6–6  Brazil 0–2 1–5 3–10
C  United States 2–0 5–1 10–2  Slovakia [3] (H) 1–1 4–2 8–6  Denmark 0–2 0–6 2–12
D  Kazakhstan 2–0 5–1 10–3  Australia [4] (H) 1–1 4–2 8–4  Colombia 0–2 0–6 1–12
E  Ukraine 2–0 5–1 10–3  Poland [5] (H) 1–1 3–3 6–8   Switzerland 0–2 1–5 5–10
F  Great Britain [6] 2–0 4–2 8–6  Netherlands (H) 1–1 4–2 9–5  Germany 0–2 1–5 4–10

Billie Jean King Cup play-offs

Date: 14-16 November 2025
Venues: Club Sonoma, Monterrey, Mexico
Arena Gorzow, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
Córdoba Lawn Tennis Club, Córdoba, Argentina
Arena Varazdin, Varaždin, Croatia
Domain Tennis Centre, Hobart, Australia
Tennis Club Ismaning, Ismaning, Germany
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.

Play-offs round results

2026 Qualifying round
2026 Regional Group I event

G = Group, T = Ties, M = Matches

G Team 1 Team 2 Team 3
Nation T M Nation T M Nation T M
A  Canada [1]  Mexico (H)  Denmark
B  Poland [2] (H)  Romania  New Zealand
C  Slovakia [3]   Switzerland  Argentina (H)
D  Czech Republic [4]  Colombia  Croatia (H)
E  Australia [5] (H)  Brazil  Portugal
F  Germany [6] (H)  Belgium  Turkey
G  Netherlands [7]  Slovenia  India (H)

Americas Zone

Group I

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

Participating teams

Promotions/Relegations

Group II

Date: 18 – 21 June 2025
Venue: Club Lawn Tennis de la Exposición, Lima, Peru

Participating teams

Promotions/Relegations

  •  Ecuador and  Peru were promoted to Americas Zone Group I in 2026.
  •  Barbados and  Costa Rica were relegated to Americas Zone Group III in 2026.

Group III

Date: 18-23 August 2025
Venue: Santa Tecla, El Salvador

Participating teams
Inactive teams

Promotions

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

Asia/Oceania Zone

Group I

Date: 8-12 April 2025 [5]
Venue: MSLTA School of Tennis, Pune, India (Hard)

Participating teams

Promotions/Relegations

Group II

Date: 16-22 June 2025
Venue: National Tennis Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Hard)

Participating teams

Promotions/Relegations

  •  Indonesia and  Mongolia were promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group I in 2026.
  •  Iran and  Northern Mariana Islands were relegated to Asia/Oceania Zone Group III in 2026.

Group III

Date: 16-21 June 2025
Venue: Event A: Colombo, Sri Lanka; Event B: Amman, Jordan

Participating teams

Withdrawn

Inactive teams

Promotions

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

Europe/Africa Zone

Group I

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

Participating teams

Promotions/Relegations

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

Group II

Date: 7–12 April 2025
Venue: Herodotou Tennis Academy, Larnaca, Cyprus

Participating teams

Promotions/Relegations

  •  Georgia and  Norway were promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 2026.
  •  Estonia and  Kosovo were relegated to Europe Zone Group III in 2026.

Group III Europe

Date: 16 – 22 June 2025
Venue: Chișinău Arena Tennis Club, Chișinău, Moldova

Participating teams
Inactive teams

Promotion

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

Group III Africa

Date: 4-10 August 2025
Venue: Central Tennis Club, Windhoek, Namibia

Participating teams

Promotion/Relegation

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

Group IV Africa

Date: 14-20 July 2025
Venue: Kicukiro Ecology Tennis Club, Kigali, Rwanda

Participating teams
Withdrawn

Promotion

  • TBD was promoted to Africa Zone Group III in 2026.

References

  1. ^ "2025 Billie Jean King Cup Format". Billie Jean King Cup.
  2. ^ "2025 Finals dates announced". Billie Jean King Cup. 10 April 2025.
  3. ^ "Shenzhen announced as finals host". Billie Jean King Cup. 23 January 2025.
  4. ^ "Billie Jean King Cup - Rankings". Billie Jean King Cup. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  5. ^ "BJK Group I Asia Oceania". Retrieved 28 March 2025.