Czech Republic Billie Jean King Cup team

Czech Republic
CaptainPetr Pála
ITF ranking2 Increase2 (15 April 2024)
Highest ITF ranking1 (2012–2013, 2014–2019)
Colorsblue & red
First year1963
Years played50
Ties played (W–L)155 (114–41)
Years in
World Group
41 (80–26)
Titles11 (1975, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018)
Runners-up1 (1986)
Most total winsHelena Suková (57–16)
Most singles winsHelena Suková (45–11)
Most doubles winsHana Mandlíková (16–6)
Best doubles teamHelena Suková /
Hana Mandlíková (7–3)
Most ties playedHelena Suková (54)
Most years playedLucie Šafářová (14)

The Czech Republic women's national tennis team is the representative national team of the Czech Republic in Billie Jean King Cup competition. The Czech Republic team in its current incarnation began competing in 1993. It is seen as the primary successor to the Czechoslovak team, and not Slovakia[citation needed], even though the Czechoslovak team included both Czech and Slovak players.

Czechoslovakia won the Billie Jean King Cup five times between 1975 and 1988 (when the competition was known as the Federation Cup), but the victory in 2011 (by which time the competition had been renamed the Fed Cup) was the team's first win as the Czech Republic.[1] They have since won the competition five more times, in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018.[2][3]

Martina Navratilova, one of the Czechoslovak team's greatest players, helped guide the team to victory in 1975. In 1981 she became a US citizen and in later tournaments, notably the 1986 Federation Cup final, she played for the United States against her former nation.

  1. ^ "České tenistky opět vládnou světu. Po 23 letech vyhrály Fed Cup". idnes.cz (in Czech). 6 November 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  2. ^ Kvitova Leads Czechs To Fed Cup Glory, WTA official website, 9 November 2014
  3. ^ Strength in Depth the Key for Five-Star Czech republic Archived 2018-11-12 at the Wayback Machine, WTA official website, 14 November 2016