2024 World Cup of Tennis: Canada’s Billie Jean king Cup and Davis Cup Groups Every Eyeing Second Title

OVERVIEW 

For the primary time in historical past, the very best ladies’s and males’s tennis groups on the planet will all come collectively to crown the world champions. 

The 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Finals and Davis Cup Finals will each be performed in Malaga, Spain in November. The ladies’s occasion will run from Nov. 13 to twenty with the boys’s occasion happening from Nov. 19 to 24. 

Canada is considered one of six international locations sending two groups to Malaga as each the Billie Jean King Cup workforce and Davis Cup workforce have certified. Canada is the one nation competing to have received each titles a minimum of as soon as within the final 5 years. 

Billie Jean King Cup 

Canada are the defending champions on the Billie Jean King Cup, having received the title in 2023. 4 of the 5 members of the championships workforce are again: Leylah Annie Fernandez, Gabriela Dabrowski, Marina Stakusic, and Rebecca Marino. Heidi El Tabakh can be again as captain. 

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After a bye, Canada will play their quarter-final tie towards both Nice Britain or Germany on Nov. 17 at 5:00 pm native time, 11:00 am EST. Canada is the No. 1 ranked workforce within the Billie Jean King Cup competitors. 

Davis Cup 

Two years faraway from their victory in Malaga, the boys’s workforce additionally has 4 of 5 gamers who lifted the trophy in 2022 again for this yr’s Ultimate 8. Denis Shapovalov, Gabriel Diallo, Alexis Galarneau and Vasek Pospisil will all don the purple and white as soon as once more, as they did within the Group Stage in September. Milos Raonic, who performed for Canada final yr in Malaga and was on the workforce through the qualifying spherical in February, rounds out the squad captained by Frank Dancevic. 

Diallo, Galarneau, and Pospisil have been nominated to the Canadian squad for all three phases of the 2024 Davis Cup, together with the upcoming Ultimate 8.

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Canada’s bid for a second title will start the identical approach it did in 2022, with a quarter-final conflict towards Germany. The tie will happen on Nov. 20 at midday native time, 6:00 am EST. 

If the Billie Jean King Cup workforce reaches the ultimate, they may play for the title on the identical day that the Davis Cup workforce performs their quarter-final. 

HOW TO WATCH

Viewers can watch Group Canada’s Billie Jean King Cup Finals and Davis Cup Ultimate 8 ties totally free on CBC Gem, cbcsports.ca, the CBC Sports activities app, and CBC Sports activities’ official YouTube channel. The ties will even be accessible in French, as TVA Sports activities and TVA Sports activities Direct shall be exhibiting Canada’s matchups, in addition to all semi-finals and finals. The schedule may be discovered beneath.

Billie Jean King Cup Finals

Canada vs. Germany/Nice Britain (QF) on Sunday, November 17, not earlier than 11 a.m. EST

Semi-final 1 on Monday, November 18 at 11 a.m. EST*

Semi-final 2 on Tuesday, November 19 at 6 a.m. EST*

Finals on Wednesday, November 20 at 12 p.m. EST

Davis Cup Ultimate 8

Canada vs. Germany (QF) on Wednesday, November 20 at 6 a.m. EST

Semi-final 1 on Friday, November 22 at 11 a.m. EST*

Semi-final 2 on Saturday, November 23 at 7 a.m. EST*

Finals on Sunday, November 24 at 10 a.m. EST

*Precise semifinal to be confirmed

ROAD TO MALAGA 

Billie Jean King Cup 

Group Canada had a direct path to the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Malaga as their 2023 title earned them a bye, permitting them to skip the qualifying spherical. Moreover, because the No. 1 workforce within the Billie Jean King Cup rankings, Canada could have a bye straight into the quarter-finals. 

Davis Cup 

Qualifiers 

The Canadian males kicked off their 2024 marketing campaign on house soil in Montreal in February, the Davis Cup workforce’s first house tie in 5 years. Regardless of being with out their prime two gamers, the Canadian squad defeated the Republic of Korea 3-1 to advance to the 2024 Davis Cup Finals group stage. 

Group Stage 

Drawn in Group D for the Group Stage in Manchester, the full-strength Canadian squad led by Félix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov cruised to the highest of the group, profitable all three of their ties towards Argentina, Finland, and Nice Britain, going 7-2 in matches general and never dropping a set in singles all week to punch their ticket to the Ultimate 8. 

REVISITING THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 

2023 Billie Jean King Cup 

Qualifiers 

Canada’s 2023 marketing campaign received underway on house soil with a second consecutive qualifying tie held in Vancouver. Leylah Annie Fernandez put the workforce on her again, scoring all three factors for the hosts as Canada took out Belgium to qualify for the Finals in Seville. 

Finals 

The Canadians cruised by what a doubtlessly tough Group C in Seville, profitable all six matches in two ties towards Spain and Poland. A gutsy selection by captain Heidi El Tabakh to begin newcomer Marina Stakusic paid off in a giant approach as the teenager received each her singles matches to assist Canada by the group. 

Within the semis, they shocked the superpower Czechs with an upset win within the deciding doubles earlier than Stakusic and Fernandez slammed the door on Italy within the last. 

2022 Davis Cup 

Group Stage 

Félix Auger-Aliassime’s late resolution to affix the workforce for the Group Stage proved vital for the Canadians as he put the squad on his again in Valencia. The Canadian No. 1 went 4-1, together with two decisive doubles wins with Vasek Pospisil and an upset over newly-minted US Open champion Carlos Alcaraz, who was making his debut as world No. 1, to assist Canada end second in Group B and qualify for Malaga. 

Ultimate 8 

The quarter and semifinals adopted comparable scripts, with Canada dropping the opening singles match just for Auger-Aliassime to dominate the second singles earlier than the Canadian workforce snuck it out within the doubles. There was no such drama within the last as each Denis Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime received in straight units to earn Canada its first title in 109 years of competing on the Davis Cup. 

LISTEN: Interviews with the Members of Group Canada

All through 2024, the members of Group Canada have sat down with Match Level Canada, the official English podcast of Tennis Canada and the Nationwide Financial institution Open. Try the interviews:

WATCH: Sport. Set. Canada 

Wish to know extra about Canada’s latest historical past on the Billie Jean King and Davis Cups? Try Sport. Set. Canada, the net documentary collection following the exploits of Group Canada.