The finals, formerly known as World Group, is the highest level of Billie Jean King Cup competition in 2020–21. It was originally scheduled to be played on indoor clay courts at the László Papp Budapest Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary, from 14 until 19 April 2020, but was postponed due to COVID-19. The new venue was established to be the O2 Arena, in Prague,O2 Arena News on indoor hard (Rebound Ace) court.BJK Cup News The ties were contested in a best-of-three rubbers format and are played on one day. There were two singles matches, followed by a single doubles tie.

France were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the round-robin stage, losing both their ties.

The Russian Tennis Federation won the title, defeating Switzerland in the final, 2–0.

Participating teams 12 nations took part in the finals. The qualification was as follows: 2 finalists of the previous edition 1 host nation 1 wild card 8 winners of a qualifier round, in February 2020

Participating teams (WC) (H) (TH)RTF

Team nominations SR = Singles ranking, DR = Doubles ranking. Rankings are as of 1 November 2021. Player SR DR 43 140 131 33 200 43 232 180 412 559 Captain: Alicia Molik Player SR DR 88 79 192 495 263 311 356 238 90 Captain: Tatiana Poutchek Player SR DR 18 1 70 81 146 395 160 148 Captain: Johan Van Herck Player SR DR 148 175 328 570 353 710 5 Captain: Sylvain Bruneau Player SR DR 3 3 35 66 48 188 49 2 557 29 Captain: Petr Pála Player SR DR 59 281 75 170 77 268 105 410 Captain: Julien Benneteau Player SR DR 9 379 76 135 134 137 93 297 1319 Captain: Rainer Schüttler RTF Player SR DR 12 108 28 284 31 11 32 146 40 1342 Captain: Igor Andreev Player SR DR 83 621 111 172 491 175 59 618 111 Captain: Matej Lipták Player SR DR 37 69 66 359 163 86 167 270 330 1103 Captain: Anabel Medina Garrigues Player SR DR 17 155 39 106 45 145 116 964 Captain: Heinz Günthardt Player SR DR 30 492 42 74 63 1085 151 156 197 28 Captain: Kathy Rinaldi

Format The 12 teams are divided in four round robin groups of three teams each. The four group winners will qualify for the semifinals.

Day Round Number of teams 1–4 November Round robin 12 (4 groups of 3 teams) 5 November Semifinals 4 6 November Final 2

Group stage Qualified for the Knockout stage

Overview T = Ties, M = Matches, S = Sets GroupWinnersRunners-upThirdNationTMSNationTMSNationTMSA RTF2–05–111–41–12–45–90–22–46–9B2–04–28–71–13–38–70–22–46–8C1–13–37–61–13–38–81–13–37–8D2–05–110–31–13–37–70–21–54–11

Group A Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %1 RTF2–05–111–473%82–5162%21–12–45–936%59–7644%30–22–46–940%67–8145%

France vs. Canada

RTF vs. Canada

France vs. RTF

Group B Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %12–04–28–763%71–6751%21–13–38–753%73–6154%30–22–46–843%55–7144%

Belarus vs. Belgium

Australia vs. Belgium

Australia vs. Belarus

Group C Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %11–13–37–654%60–5154%21–13–38–850%64–6649%31–13–37–847%58–6547%

Spain vs. Slovakia

United States vs. Slovakia

United States vs. Spain

Group D Pos.CountryTiesMatchesSetsSets %Games Games %12–05–110–377%73–5159%21–13–37–750%64–6450%30–21–54–1127%56–7842%

Czech Republic vs. Germany

Germany vs. Switzerland

Czech Republic vs. Switzerland

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semifinals

RTF vs. United States

Australia vs. Switzerland

Final RTF vs. Switzerland

References

External links Official website