Australia Fed Cup team
| Australia | |
|---|---|
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| Captain | Alicia Molik (since 2013) |
| ITF ranking |
11  3 (16 April 2016) |
| Highest ITF ranking | 4 (10 February 2014) |
| Lowest ITF ranking | 26 (11 July 2006) |
| Colors | green & gold |
| First year | 1963 |
| Years played | 54 |
| Ties played (W–L) | 176 (125–51) |
| Years in World Group | 41 (95–38) |
| Titles |
7 (1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974) |
| Runners-up |
10 (1963, 1969, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1993) |
| Most total wins | Wendy Turnbull (46–16) |
| Most singles wins | Samantha Stosur (29–17) |
| Most doubles wins | Wendy Turnbull (29–8) |
| Best doubles team |
Kerry Reid / Wendy Turnbull (11–4) |
| Most ties played | Wendy Turnbull (45) |
| Most years played | Rennae Stubbs (17) |
The Australia Fed Cup team represents Australia in international women's tennis and is directed by Tennis Australia. The team played in the first ever tournament in 1963, and is one of four teams that has taken part in every single edition since.[1]
The Australian national team is one of the most successful in world tennis. They are seven-time world champions and have reached a total of seventeen finals, both second highest all-time behind United States.[2] Between 1963 and 1980, the Australian team played in every single final except for three. However, in recent times the Australian team has had a comparative lack of success, only appearing in the World Group five times between 1995 and 2010, and never going beyond the first round.[1] However, the team has experienced a resurgence in recent times, accumulating a 15–6 win–loss record since 2005 and returning to the World Group in 2011 and 2013.[3][4] Samantha Stosur holds the record for most singles wins by an Australian in Fed Cup, while Wendy Turnbull holds the record for most doubles wins, most overall tie wins, and most ties participated in.[1]
Alicia Molik is the current captain and has held that position since 2013.[5] Currently, the team is No. 8 in the ITF Rankings, two places lower than their highest-ever rank since the inception of the rankings in 2002.[6]
Current team
| Name[1] | DOB[1] | First[1] | Last[1] | Ties[1] | Win/Loss[1] | Ranks[lower-alpha 1] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sin | Dou | Tot | Sin | Dou | |||||
| Birrell, KimberlyKimberly Birrell | 29 April 1998 | 2016 | 2016 | 1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 361 | 606 |
| Dellacqua, CaseyCasey Dellacqua | 11 February 1985 | 2006 | 2016 | 17 | 6–5 | 9–4 | 15–9 | 112 | 5 |
| Rodionova, ArinaArina Rodionova | 15 December 1989 | 2016 | 2016 | 1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 33 | 56 |
| Stosur, SamanthaSamantha Stosur | 30 March 1984 | 2003 | 2016 | 27 | 27–15 | 6–0 | 33–15 | 27 | 62 |
| Wolfe, JarmilaJarmila Wolfe | 26 April 1987 | 2011 | 2015 | 8 | 6–7 | 0–2 | 6–9 | 102 | 140 |
History
Players
Forty-four players have represented Fed Cup for Australia since its inception in 1963.[1] Wendy Turnbull holds the record for the most ties played, having appeared in forty-five ties during her eleven-year Fed Cup career. Rennae Stubbs is second, with forty-one ties, although she had by far competed for more years than anyone else (with seventeen) before her retirement after the team's 2011 tie against Italy.[15] Alicia Molik, the current captain,[5] is tenth, having played in twenty-two ties, one less than the highest active player Samantha Stosur.[1] Turnbull took the record for most ties in 1986,[16] taking the record from current third Dianne Balestrat.[17] Balestrat was also the youngest person to reach twenty ties, at 23 years old.[17] Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong Cawley share the record of people to reach twenty ties to have the highest winning percentage, with 35–5 or 0.875%.[1]
Stosur holds the record for most Australia Fed Cup singles wins. She had her first win in 2004 against Napaporn Tongsalee, and went on to take the record from Balestrat nine years later after defeating Romina Oprandi in 2013.[1][18] Court holds the record for most prolific singles player, averaging once win for every tie she played and also accumulating a 100% singles winning percentage.[1] Court was also the first player to accumulate ten wins for the team, having achieved the feat in 1965.[1][19] Nicole Bradtke was the youngest person to achieve her tenth win, doing so in April 1995 against Radka Zrubáková while aged 22 years, 1 month.[20] Current captain Molik is once again tenth on this factor, sharing the record with Bradtke at twelve.[1]
Turnbull holds the record for most doubles wins, accumulating twenty-nine wins before her final tie in 1988 against West Germany, and taking this record from Kerry Melville Reid, the current third, in 1982.[16] Turnbull and Melville Reid together also hold the record for most doubles wins as a team, with eleven.[1] Of the players that have achieved ten doubles wins, Judy Tegart Dalton was the most prolific, averaging 0.8 wins per tie.[1] Goolagong Cawley achieved the highest win percentage, at 86.7%.[1] Court was once again the first player to reach ten doubles wins, doing so after beating Winnie Shaw and Virginia Wade alongside Melville Reid in 1968.[19] Stubbs, currently second, was the youngest person to achieve ten doubles wins, at 24 years, 1 month.[21] Of the active players, Casey Dellacqua, tenth, has the most doubles wins at seven.[1]
Jelena Dokic was the youngest player to compete for Australia, and also the youngest person to win a match for Australia when she defeated Mariana Díaz-Oliva in 1998 aged 15 years, 3 months.[1][22] Rennae Stubbs, on the other hand, was the oldest player to compete and win a match, winning her last match aged 39 years, 1 month, and playing her final tie aged 39 years, 10 months.[1][21]
Most ties played
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Most singles wins
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Most doubles wins
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Top ten players
Singles
| Player | Record | W% | Hardcourt | Clay | Grass | Carpet |
| Number 1 ranked players | ||||||
| Margaret Court | 20–0 | 100% | 0–0 | 7–0 | 13–0 | 0–0 |
| Evonne Goolagong Cawley | 22–3 | 88% | 6–1 | 10–1 | 2–0 | 4–1 |
| Number 2 ranked players | ||||||
| Lesley Turner Bowrey | 7–3 | 70% | 0–0 | 0–2 | 7–1 | 0–0 |
| Number 3 ranked players | ||||||
| Wendy Turnbull | 17–8 | 68% | 5–0 | 10–6 | 2–2 | 0–0 |
| Number 4 ranked players | ||||||
| Dianne Balestrat | 24–9 | 72.72% | 2–1 | 15–6 | 5–2 | 2–2 |
| Jelena Dokic | 13–2 | 86.67% | 6–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 5–0 |
| Samantha Stosur | 27–13 | 67.50% | 17–9 | 8–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 |
| Number 7 ranked players | ||||||
| Jan O'Neill | 3–0 | 100% | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 |
| Judy Tegart Dalton | 6–1 | 85.71% | 0–0 | 6–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Kerry Melville Reid | 20–4 | 83.33% | 0–0 | 9–3 | 8–1 | 3–0 |
| Lesley Hunt | 1–0 | 100% | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 8 ranked players | ||||||
| Alicia Molik | 12–15 | 44.44% | 5–4 | 3–9 | 3–1 | 1–1 |
Doubles
| Player | Record | W% | Hardcourt | Clay | Grass | Carpet |
| Number 1 ranked players | ||||||
| Margaret Court | 15–5 | 75% | 0–0 | 5–2 | 10–3 | 0–0 |
| Rennae Stubbs | 28–10 | 73.68% | 13–2 | 13–4 | 2–0 | 0–4 |
| Samantha Stosur | 6–0 | 100% | 5–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 3 ranked players | ||||||
| Casey Dellacqua | 10–4 | 71.42% | 9–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 5 ranked players | ||||||
| Wendy Turnbull | 29–8 | 78.38% | 9–2 | 12–4 | 8–2 | 0–0 |
| Elizabeth Smylie | 17–5 | 77.27% | 7–2 | 10–3 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Number 6 ranked players | ||||||
| Alicia Molik | 6–6 | 50% | 5–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–3 |
| Number 10 ranked players | ||||||
| Jelena Dokic | 1–1 | 50% | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 |
- *Active players in bold, statistics as of 1 February 2016.
Results
| Tournament | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | W–L | ||||||
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| World Group | F | W | W | SF | SF | W | F | W | W | SF | W | W | F | F | F | F | F | F | SF | SF | QF | F | SF | QF | QF | QF | SF | 2R | 2R | SF | F | 2R | 92–25 | ||||||
| Win–Loss | 3–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 4–0 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–1 | 1–1 | |||||||
| Tournament | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | W–L | |||||||||||||||||
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| Fed Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Group | A | A | A | A | A | 11th | 7th | 1R | 1R | 1R | A | A | A | A | A | A | QF | A | QF | SF | QF | 1–13 | |||||||||||||||||
| World Group Play-offs | L | A | L | A | A | NH | W | W | W | L | A | A | A | A | A | W | L | W | W | A | L | 7–5 | |||||||||||||||||
| World Group II | W | L | W | L | L | Not Held | A | A | L | A | A | W | A | W | A | A | A | 4–4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World Group II Play-offs | A | W | A | W | W | A | W | L | A | W | A | A | A | A | A | A | 8–1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asia/Oceania Zone Group I | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | A | 2nd | W | A | 4th | W | A | A | A | A | A | A | 12–2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Win–Loss | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 0–3 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 5–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 124–50 | |||||||||||||||||
| Year End Ranking | 11 | 12 | 19 | 26 | 16 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Records
In terms of time, the longest rubber involving an Australian player was Fabiola Zuluaga's 2003, 2–6, 7–6(7–4), 8–10, defeat of Alicia Molik, which took two hour, forty-three minutes. However, the longest rubber in terms of games was Margaret Court and Kerry Reid's 1968, 9–7, 3–6, 14–12, defeat of Winnie Shaw and Virginia Wade, which lasted fifty-one games and holds the overall Fed Cup record.[23] This match also holds the Australian Fed Cup record of most games in a set.[1]
The longest tie in terms of time and games was the Italy–Australia match in 2011, which lasted for ten hours and twenty-six minutes and featured a hundred and forty-nine games. The match also holds the overall Fed Cup record for most tiebreaks in a tie with five.[23] The Australian Fed Cup record for longest tiebreak was also set in 2011, with Anastasia Rodionova's, 6–7(3–7), 6–7(12–14), loss to Olga Savchuk.[1]
Australia was also featured in two of the five 0–2 comebacks featured since inception. The Australian team defeated Canada in the competition's first ever 0–2 comeback in 1996, while Austria beat the team three years later for the second event.[23]
The Australian team also holds the record for longest streak of consecutive finals, from 1973–1980.[2] It was during this period that they accumulated their longest tie winning streak at eleven.[1]
Longest winning streak
| Year | Competition | Date | Location | Opponent | Score | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | World Group, Second Round | 2 May | Bad Homburg (FRG) |  Japan |
3–0 | Won |
| World Group, Quarterfinals | 4 May |  Indonesia |
3–0 | Won | ||
| World Group, Semifinals | 5 May |  West Germany |
3–0 | Won | ||
| World Group, Final | 6 May | .svg.png){kind=small} South Africa |
3–0 | Won | ||
| 1974 | World Group, Second Round | May | Naples (ITA) | Japan |
2–0 | Won |
| World Group, Quarterfinals |  Italy |
3–0 | Won | |||
| World Group, Semifinals |  Great Britain |
3–0 | Won | |||
| World Group, Final |  United States |
2–1 | Won | |||
| 1975 | World Group, Second Round | May | Aix-en-Provence (FRA) | .svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
2–0 | Won |
| World Group, Quarterfinals | Italy |
3–0 | Won | |||
| World Group, Semifinals | United States |
2–1 | Won | |||
| World Group, Final |  Czechoslovakia |
0–3 | Lost |
Finals: 18 (7 titles, 11 runners-up)
| Outcome | Year | Venue | Surface | Team | Opponents | Opposing Team | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runner-up | 1963 | Queen's Club, London, United Kingdom | Grass | Margaret Smith Jan O'Neill Lesley Turner | United States | Darlene Hard Billie Jean Moffitt | 1–2 |
| Winner | 1964 | Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, United States | Grass | Margaret Smith Lesley Turner Robyn Ebbern | United States | Billie Jean Moffitt Nancy Richey Karen Hantze Susman | 2–1 |
| Winner | 1965 | Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia | Grass | Margaret Smith Lesley Turner Judy Tegart | United States | Billie Jean Moffitt Carole Caldwell Graebner | 2–1 |
| Winner | 1968 | Stade Roland Garros, Paris, France | Red clay | Margaret Court Kerry Melville |  Netherlands | Astrid Suurbeck Marijke Jansen Lidy Venneboer | 3–0 |
| Runner-up | 1969 | Athens Tennis Club, Athens, Greece | Red clay | Margaret Court Kerry Melville Judy Tegart | United States | Nancy Richey Julie Heldman Jane Bartkowicz | 1–2 |
| Winner | 1970 | Freiburg Tennis Club, Freiburg, West Germany | Red clay | Judy Tegart Karen Krantzcke | West Germany | Helga Niessen Helga Hösl | 3–0 |
| Winner | 1971 | Royal King's Park Tennis Club, Perth, Australia | Grass | Margaret Court Evonne Goolagong Lesley Hunt | Great Britain | Virginia Wade Ann Jones Winnie Shaw | 3–0 |
| Winner | 1973 | Bad Homburg Tennis Club, Bad Homburg, West Germany | Red clay | Evonne Goolagong Patricia Coleman Janet Young | South Africa | Patricia Walkden Brenda Kirk | 3–0 |
| Winner | 1974 | Naples Tennis Club, Naples, Italy | Red clay | Evonne Goolagong Dianne Fromholtz Janet Young | United States | Julie Heldman Jeanne Evert Sharon Walsh | 2–1 |
| Runner-up | 1975 | Aixoise C.C., Aix-en-Provence, France | Red clay | Evonne Goolagong Helen Gourlay Dianne Fromholtz | Czechoslovakia | Martina Navratilova Renáta Tomanová | 0–3 |
| Runner-up | 1976 | The Spectrum, Philadelphia, United States | Carpet (i) | Evonne Goolagong Cawley Kerry Melville Reid Dianne Fromholtz | United States | Billie Jean King Rosemary Casals | 1–2 |
| Runner-up | 1977 | Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, United Kingdom | Grass | Kerry Melville Reid Dianne Fromholtz Wendy Turnbull | United States | Chris Evert Billie Jean King Rosemary Casals | 1–2 |
| Runner-up | 1978 | Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, Australia | Grass | Kerry Melville Reid Wendy Turnbull Dianne Fromholtz | United States | Chris Evert Tracy Austin Billie Jean King | 1–2 |
| Runner-up | 1979 | RSHE Club Campo, Madrid, Spain | Red clay | Kerry Melville Reid Wendy Turnbull Dianne Fromholtz | United States | Chris Evert Lloyd Tracy Austin Billie Jean King Rosemary Casals | 0–3 |
| Runner-up | 1980 | Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, West Berlin, West Germany | Red clay | Dianne Fromholtz Wendy Turnbull Susan Leo | United States | Chris Evert Lloyd Tracy Austin Rosemary Casals Kathy Jordan | 0–3 |
| Runner-up | 1984 | Esporte Clube Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil | Red clay | Elizabeth Sayers Wendy Turnbull Anne Minter Elizabeth Minter | Czechoslovakia | Hana Mandlíková Helena Suková Iva Budařová Marcela Skuherská | 1–2 |
| Runner-up | 1993 | Waldstadion T.C., Frankfurt, Germany | Red clay | Nicole Provis Michelle Jaggard-Lai Elizabeth Smylie Rennae Stubbs |  Spain | Conchita Martínez Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Virginia Ruano Pascual Cristina Torrens Valero | 0–3 |
Head-to-head record
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- *Previous champions in bold, teams that have been ranked no. 1 in italics, statistics as of 19 April 2015.
See also
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 "Australian Fed Cup team". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- 1 2 "Fed Cup Champions". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "Czechs to host Australia in Fed Cup World Group". Tennis Australia. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ "Taylor stands down as Fed Cup coach". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 15 December 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
- 1 2 Matthews, B. (18 January 2013). "Former world No.8 Alicia Molik appointed new Fed Cup captain". News Limited. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
- ↑ Fed Cup Nations Ranking History. International Tennis Federation. 2013.
- ↑ "Ashleigh Barty". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Casey Dellacqua". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Jelena Dokic". Women's Tennis Association. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "Jarmila Wolfe". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ "Jessica Moore". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Anastasia Rodionova". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Olivia Rogowska". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Samantha Stosur". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ Gabriel, C. (6 February 2011). "Stubbs makes emotional farewell". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- 1 2 "Wendy Turnbull (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- 1 2 "Dianne Balestrat (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Samantha Stosur (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- 1 2 "Margaret Court (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ "Nicole Bradtke (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- 1 2 "Rennae Stubbs (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ "Jelena Dokic (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Records". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
External links
- Team page on FedCup.com
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