Former participant Billie Jean King poses with the trophy.
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The Czech Republic beat defending champion Switzerland 3-0 on the primary day of the group stage on the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Tuesday.
Debutant Linda Noskova defeated Celine Naef 7-6 (2), 4-6, 6-4 in the primary singles match, and one other debutant Marie Bouzkova beat Viktorija Golubic 6-4, 6-4 in the second match of the Group A tie. The third level got here with Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova defeating Golubic and Jil Teichmann 7-6 (3), 6-2 in the doubles match.
Bouzkova was a late addition to the Czech workforce following the withdrawal of world No. 8 Karolina Muchova as a result of of a wrist damage.
Switzerland was with out Olympic gold medalist Belinda Bencic, who introduced on Friday that she is pregnant.
The United States is the opposite workforce in Group A and can face Switzerland on Thursday.
In Group B, Slovenia defeated final 12 months’s runner-up Australia 2-1 after Kaja Juvan defeated Ajla Tomljanovic 6-4, 6-1 and Tamara Zidansek beat Daria Saville 6-1, 6-4.
Australia’s level got here when Kimberly Birrell and Storm Hunter beat Veronika Erjavec and Ela Nala Milic 7-5, 6-7 (2), 10-5 in the doubles match.
The 12-team BJK Cup Finals is being performed at La Cartuja Stadium in the southern Spanish metropolis of Seville. It will run by way of Sunday providing a file whole of $9.6 million in prize cash, together with $2.4 million to the champions.
The groups compete in 4 round-robin teams and the winners will advance to the semifinals.
The largest workforce competitors in ladies’s tennis is beginning two days after the top of the WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico, which featured the highest eight gamers on the tour — together with winner Iga Swiatek.
