Katie Boulter heads the Nice Britain Billie Jean King Cup staff that can take
on Sweden at London’s Copper Field on November 11-12.
The 27-year-old has established herself as Britain’s clear primary this season within the absence of the injured Emma Raducanu and is at the moment ranked 52.
Jodie Burrage is the one different top-100 participant out there to captain Anne Keothavong’s staff and he or she might make her debut within the competitors having been neglected for April’s defeat by France in Coventry.
Harriet Dart and Heather Watson, who had been each key gamers in Britain’s run to the semi-finals of the competitors in Glasgow final November however have dropped down the rankings this season, make up the quartet.
Doubles pair Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls, who’ve gained three of their 4 matches representing Britain, have been unnoticed this time.
Britain should beat the Swedes to remain within the high tier of the competitors and provides themselves one other shot at reaching the finals subsequent yr.
Keothavong stated: “I am delighted that every one our strongest-ranked gamers have made themselves out there for the Billie Jean King Cup tie versus Sweden subsequent month.
“We’re very excited to have one more alternative to play in entrance of a house crowd, particularly on the Copper Field Enviornment, the place the followers had been so instrumental in serving to get us over the road after we final performed there a number of years in the past.
“Lastly, having the ability to captain this staff is at all times an enormous privilege and to carry reside tennis again to the place I grew up means an excellent deal to me on a private stage.”
Britain defeated Kazakhstan on the Copper Field in 2019 to lastly climb out of the Europe/Africa zone however the victory got here at a price for Boulter, who suffered a stress fracture in her again that dominated her out for six months.