The 2024 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Junior Finals is taking place on 11-17 November – kicking off the same week as the Finals of the women’s World Cup of Tennis in Malaga.
The event will be held on outdoor red clay courts at the Megasaray Tennis Academy in Antalya, Turkiye.
Sixteen girls teams are in action in the Finals, with Turkiye automatically qualifying as the host nation.
All teams at the Finals will contest round-robin groups for the first three days of competition. Following a planned day off, nations will then compete in three further ties for the final three days to determine final positions from 1st to 16th. All teams will compete in six ties during the seven days.
USA will be the team to beat having won their eighth title when the event was held in Cordoba last year with victory over Czechia. Victories for Tyra Caterina Grant and Iva Jovic capped a sensational week for the team, who raced to the title without dropping a set.
HISTORY
The International Team Competition for players aged 16 & under was launched by the ITF in 1985 as the 'World Youth Cup' with NEC as the title sponsor between 1988 and 2001.
In 2002 the ITF re-branded the boys competition as part of a new partnership with BNP Paribas to 'Junior Davis Cup by BNP Paribas'. The girls' competition was also changed to 'Junior Fed Cup by BNP Paribas' in 2005, before becoming the Junior Billie Jean King Cup - in line with the re-branding of the women's professional team event - in 2020.
From its inaugural year in 1985 when 44 nations took part in regional qualifying with the top 16 boys' and 16 girls' teams moving through to the Final in Kobe, Japan, the competition has gone from strength to strength. The number of participants has grown to around 100 nations each year.
Previous winning teams have featured players who have gone on to excel at the top of the game including Ashleigh Barty (Australia, 2011), Iga Swiatek (Poland, 2016), and Coco Gauff (USA, 2018).