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India Fed Cup Team
The India Billie Jean King Cup team represents India in the WTA & ITF Billie Jean King Cup professional tennis competition and are governed by the All India Tennis Association. India competed in its first Fed Cup in 1977, but did not compete again until 1991. Since 1991, India has been competing annually (except 1993). India's best result was reaching the Asia/Oceania Group I final in 2006. In 2004, Manisha Malhotra and Sania Mirza broke the record for playing the longest tiebreak (21–19) in their doubles match against Uzbekistan pair Vlada Ekshibarova and Ivanna Israilova. Current team Players Results 1970s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References External links {{National sports teams of India Billie Jean King Cup teams Fed Cup Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vishal Uppal
Vishal Uppal (born 10 November 1976) is a tennis player from India. He participated in the Davis Cup The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries, making it the world's largest annual ... in 2000 and 2002. He actually started playing cricket at school as a young boy, but switched to tennis at the age of 11. He played in Father O'Brien's tennis tournament at school and lost in the semifinals, but it made him determined to keep playing and to win. In 2002, he represented India in the Davis Cup and he won the men's doubles bronze with Mustafa Ghouse. He played in the Davis Cup in both 2000 and 2002. He graduated from the Shri Ram College of Commerce and coaches other students in tennis today including students at the Junior Davis Cup. He is also part of the junior AITA selection committee. References 7Vishaal Uppal: T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Fed Cup
The 2004 Fed Cup was the 42nd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The final was held at the Ice Palace Krylatskoye in Moscow, Russia, on 27–28 November. The home team Russia defeated the defending champion France to win their first title after five final appearances. World Group Draw World Group play-offs Date: 10–11 July The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I sections competed in the World Group play-offs for spots in the 2005 World Group II. Americas Zone * Nations in bold advanced to the higher level of competition. * Nations in ''italics'' were relegated down to a lower level of competition. Group I Venue: Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil (outdoor clay) Dates: 19–24 April ;Participating Teams * * * ' * ' * * * * * Group II Venue: Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil (outdoor clay) Dates: 19–24 April ;Participating Teams * * * * * * * Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanaa Bhambri
Sanaa Bhambri (; born 7 March 1988) is a former professional tennis player from India. Her highest doubles ranking is world No. 298, which she achieved October 2005. She won one $25k doubles event at Lagos, Nigeria in 2005 and competed in three WTA Tour tournament main draws. In her career, Bhambri won two singles titles and twelve doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Career A left-hander, Bhambri reached the semifinals of the 2003 French Open girls' doubles event, partnering fellow Indian Sania Mirza. In October 2005, partnering Ankita Bhambri, Sanaa won a $25k event at Lagos. The sister tandem won both their semifinal and final matches by seeing their opponents withdraw before a point was played. Her only WTA Tour The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ... ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prerna Bhambri
Prerna Bhambri (born 12 September 1992) is an Indian former tennis player. Prerna Bhambri holds the record of being the only Indian to have won the All India National Tennis Championship four times in a row, and was a runner-up in 2019. She received the ''Award for Excellence in Sports'' from the Hon'ble Smt. Pratibha Patil, the former president of India. Career Bhambri holds the record of being the only Indian to have won the All India National Tennis Championship four times in a row. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 358, achieved on 20 June 2016. Bhambri won five singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In December 2019, Prerna won two gold medals for India at the South Asian Games. In 2016 as well, she won the silver medal in women's singles there. In 2018, she was the winner in singles and in doubles at the Delhi Olympic Games. In January 2012, Bhambri made her debut for the India Fed Cup team. Playing for India at Fed Cup, Bhambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ankita Bhambri
Ankita Bhambri (Hindi: अंकिता भाम्बरी; born 28 October 1986) is an Indian former professional tennis player and coach. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 332, which she achieved in May 2006. Her highest doubles ranking is world No. 299, which she reached in October 2005. In her career, Bhambri won a total of nine singles and nine doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Circuit. She has played on the WTA Tour on five occasions, losing in round one at Hyderabad (2004), Hyderabad & Kolkata (2005), and Bangalore & Kolkata (2006). Playing for India Fed Cup team, Bhambri has a win–loss record of 8–14. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 18 (9–9) Doubles: 17 (9–8) Personal life Ankita's sister Sanaa Sanaa, officially the Sanaa Municipality, is the ''de jure'' capital and largest city of Yemen. The city is the capital of the Sanaa Governorate, but is not part of the governorate, as it forms a separate administrative unit. At an el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sowjanya Bavisetti
Sowjanya Bavisetti (born 11 December 1993) is an Indian tennis player. Bavisetti has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 500, achieved on 3 October 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 402, set on 24 February 2014. She has won three singles titles and nine doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Representing India in the Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ... since 2020 in seven ties, Bavisetti has a career win-loss record of 1–6. ITF finals Singles (3–3) Doubles (9–11) References External links * * * 1993 births Living people Indian female tennis players Racket sportspeople from Hyderabad, India Sportswomen from Telangana South Asian Games gold medalists for India So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaidehi Chaudhari
Vaidehi Chaudhari (born 14 February 2000) is an Indian professional tennis player from Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories .... She plays for the Indian women’s team and is a two time Indian National champion. She is ranked 364 in the WTA rankings, WTA singles ranking as on 7 April 2025 and is the fourth highest ranked women’s player in India. Early life Chaudhari is from Khandosan, Mehsana district, Gujarat. She lives and trains in Ahmedabad under coach Jignesh Rawal. She took up tennis a bit late, at the age of 11, with the encouragement of her uncle, who was a police officer. He used to train her in physical fitness as well. Career On 12 April 2025, Chaudhari won her match and helped India beat Chinese Taipei 2-1 in the Billie Jean King Cup, Billie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maaya Rajeshwaran
Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi (born 12 June 2009) is an Indian tennis player. She trains at the Rafa Nadal Academy. Early life Maaya was born on 12 June 2009 to Tamil parents Revathi and Rajeshwaran in Coimbatore. She began playing tennis when she was 8 years old and decided to go pro when she was 10 because she loved to compete and enjoyed competing under pressure. Revathi started ITFs at 13 years of age, winning a couple and becoming a top 60 junior player. Her talent was spotted by the Rafa Nadal Academy and she got the call up invite through an email. Career At the WTA 125 Mumbai Open, she entered as a qualifying wild card. She defeated Iryna Shymanovich, Zarina Diyas, and Mei Yamaguchi to reach the semifinals. She lost to fifth seed Jil Teichmann marking the end of her run. Revathi is the first player born in 2009 to make this stage of a main draw at this level. Sponsorships *TVS Motors *Lakshya Sports *Babolat *Elgi Equipments *Lime Water Clothing ITF Junior finals Sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prarthana Thombare
Prarthana Gulabrao Thombare (born 18 June 1994) is an Indian tennis player. A doubles specialist, she is the former Indian number one in women's doubles, and an Olympian. Career Thombare has won three singles and 29 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 25 August 2014, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 335. On 16 October 2017, she peaked at No. 125 in the doubles rankings. Playing for India Fed Cup team, Thombare has a win–loss record of 17–10 (10–8 in doubles) as of June 2024. She won a bronze medal in women's doubles at the Asian Games, along with Sania Mirza Sania Mirza (; born 15 November 1986) is an Indian former professional tennis player. A former doubles world No. 1, she won six major titles – three in women's doubles and three in mixed doubles. From 2003 until her retirement from singles .... Asian Games finals Doubles: 1 (bronze medal) WTA Challenger finals Doubles: 2 (runner up) ITF Circuit finals Singles: 5 (3 titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty
Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty (born 12 December 2001) is an Indian professional tennis player who plays for the national team. She is ranked 330 in the WTA singles ranking as of 26 May 2025 and is the third highest ranked women's player in India. Early life and career Shrivalli is from Hyderabad. She was born to BRN Prasad, a chartered accountant, and B Rajshri. She started tennis at the age of 11, attracted by the galmourous tennis outfits. She finished her graduation in commerce and plans to do a course in chartered accountancy in London. She trains under coach Anand Kumar in Hyderabad and has also roped in the services of former Davis Cupper Vishal Uppal from Delhi to fine tune her game. She is sponsored by Phoenix group and Lakshya Sports Edelgive Foundation. Career In April 2025, Shrivalli she made her debut for the senior India women’s team in the Billie Jean King Cup Asia Oceania Group 1 at the Balewadi Sports Complex in Pune and won all her five singles matches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahaja Yamalapalli
Sahaja Yamalapalli (born 29 October 2000) is an Indian tennis player. She is India's number one in women's tennis. Early life Yamalapalli was born on 29 October 2000 in Hyderabad, India. Her mother is Supriya while her father Bhavaniprasad Yamalapalli works at an engineering college. She started playing tennis at the age of ten. Yamalapalli graduated from Sam Houston State University in 2017 where she majored in Food Science and Nutrition. She has won the Player of the Year Award for collegiate tennis. She was the second tennis player in the university's history to be honored with the award, the first being Irina Sotnikova. She was also the first women's tennis player who earned ITA national ranking 110 in the university's history while also becoming the first player to ever crack the ITA NCAA national ranking. Yamalapalli was Southland Conference women's tennis student-athlete of the year 2018, 2019 and 2021 for being top in studies and sports. Career Yamalapalli made her de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Billie Jean King Cup
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. Billie Jean King Cup finals ''Date: 16–21 September 2025'' ''Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, Shenzhen, China'' ''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) Seeds Draw Qualifying round ''Date: 10-13 April 2025'' ''Venues: Queensland Tennis Centre, Pat Rafter Arena, Brisbane, Australia (hard, outdoors)'' ''RT Torax Arena, Ostrava, Czechia (hard, indoors)'' ''Ariake Coliseum, 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: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
