Australia Fed Cup team

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]

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see Australia Davis Cup team.

Australia
CaptainAlicia Molik (since 2013)
ITF ranking11 3 (16 April 2016)
Highest ITF ranking4 (10 February 2014)
Lowest ITF ranking26 (11 July 2006)
Colorsgreen & gold
First year1963
Years played54
Ties played (W–L)176 (125–51)
Years in
World Group		41 (95–38)
Titles7 (1964, 1965, 1968, 1970,
1971, 1973, 1974)
Runners-up10 (1963, 1969, 1975, 1976,
1977, 1978, 1979, 1980,
1984, 1993)
Most total winsWendy Turnbull (46–16)
Most singles winsSamantha Stosur (29–17)
Most doubles winsWendy Turnbull (29–8)
Best doubles teamKerry Reid /
Wendy Turnbull (11–4)
Most ties playedWendy Turnbull (45)
Most years playedRennae Stubbs (17)

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, second highest as Runners-up 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
Ashleigh Barty24 April 1996201320191111–37–218–5113
Priscilla Hon10 May 19982019201910–11–01–0132878
Astra Sharma11 September 1995––00–00–00–0126109
Samantha Stosur30 March 1984200320193229–208–137–219726
Ajla Tomljanović7 May 19932019201911–10–01–156140

History
Main article: History of the Australia Fed Cup team

Players
Further information: List of Australia Fed Cup team representatives

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

# Name AUS career Ties Tot W/L
1 Wendy Turnbull 1977–1988 45 46–16
2 Rennae Stubbs 1992–2011 41 28–13
3 Dianne Balestrat 1974–1983 37 35–11
4 Elizabeth Smylie 1984–1994 31 24–13
5 Samantha Stosur 2003– 30 36–18
6 Kerry Melville Reid 1967–1979 29 37–10
7 Evonne Goolagong Cawley 1970–1982 26 35–5
8 Rachel McQuillan 1990–2001 23 11–21
8 Anne Minter 1981–1989 23 20–6
10 Alicia Molik 1999–2010 22 18–21

Most singles wins

# Name AUS career Ties Sin W/L Dou W/L
1 Samantha Stosur 2003– 29 29–18 7–0
2 Dianne Balestrat 1974–1983 37 24–9 11–2
3 Evonne Goolagong Cawley 1970–1982 26 22–3 13–2
4 Margaret Court 1963–1971 20 20–0 15–5
4 Kerry Melville Reid 1967–1979 29 20–4 17–6
6 Wendy Turnbull 1977–1988 45 17–8 29–8
7 Anne Minter 1981–1989 23 16–6 4–0
8 Jelena Dokic 1998–2012 17 15–2 1–1
9 Nicole Pratt 1998–2007 20 14–12 1–1
10 Nicole Bradtke 1988–1996 17 12–8 6–1
10 Alicia Molik 1999–2010 22 12–15 6–6

Most doubles wins

# Name AUS career Ties Dou W/L Sin W/L
1 Wendy Turnbull 1977–1988 45 29–8 17–8
2 Rennae Stubbs 1992–2011 41 28–10 0–3
3 Kerry Melville Reid 1967–1979 29 17–6 20–4
3 Elizabeth Smylie 1984–1994 31 17–5 7–8
5 Margaret Court 1963–1971 20 15–5 20–0
6 Evonne Goolagong Cawley 1970–1982 26 13–2 22–3
6 Casey Dellacqua 2006–2018 21 13–4 6–5
8 Judy Tegart Dalton 1965–1970 15 12–3 6–1
9 Dianne Balestrat 1974–1983 37 11–2 24–9
10 Susan Leo 1980–1983 13 9–3 2–0

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 7–0 100% 6–0 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
Ashleigh Barty 5–1 83% 4–1 0–0 1–0 0–0
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
Tournament19631964196519661967196819691970197119721973197419751976197719781979198019811982198319841985198619871988198919901991199219931994W–L
Federation Cup
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
Tournament199519961997199819992000200120022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015W–L
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 to 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  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)  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: 17 (7 titles, 10 runners-up)
Outcome Year Venue Surface Team Opponents Opposing Team Score
Runner-up1963Queen's Club, London, United KingdomGrassMargaret Smith
Jan O'Neill
Lesley Turner		 United StatesDarlene Hard
Billie Jean Moffitt		1–2
Winner1964Germantown Cricket Club, Philadelphia, United StatesGrassMargaret Smith
Lesley Turner
Robyn Ebbern		 United StatesBillie Jean Moffitt
Nancy Richey
Karen Hantze Susman		2–1
Winner1965Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, AustraliaGrassMargaret Smith
Lesley Turner
Judy Tegart		 United StatesBillie Jean Moffitt
Carole Caldwell Graebner		2–1
Winner1968Stade Roland Garros, Paris, FranceRed clayMargaret Court
Kerry Melville		 NetherlandsAstrid Suurbeck
Marijke Jansen
Lidy Venneboer		3–0
Runner-up1969Athens Tennis Club, Athens, GreeceRed clayMargaret Court
Kerry Melville
Judy Tegart		 United StatesNancy Richey
Julie Heldman
Jane Bartkowicz		1–2
Winner1970Freiburg Tennis Club, Freiburg, West GermanyRed clayJudy Tegart
Karen Krantzcke		 West GermanyHelga Niessen
Helga Hösl		3–0
Winner1971Royal King's Park Tennis Club, Perth, AustraliaGrassMargaret Court
Evonne Goolagong
Lesley Hunt		 Great BritainVirginia Wade
Ann Jones
Winnie Shaw		3–0
Winner1973Bad Homburg Tennis Club, Bad Homburg, West GermanyRed clayEvonne Goolagong
Patricia Coleman
Janet Young		 South AfricaPatricia Walkden
Brenda Kirk		3–0
Winner1974Naples Tennis Club, Naples, ItalyRed clayEvonne Goolagong
Dianne Fromholtz
Janet Young		 United StatesJulie Heldman
Jeanne Evert
Sharon Walsh		2–1
Runner-up1975Aixoise C.C., Aix-en-Provence, FranceRed clayEvonne Goolagong
Helen Gourlay
Dianne Fromholtz		 CzechoslovakiaMartina Navratilova
Renáta Tomanová		0–3
Runner-up1976The Spectrum, Philadelphia, United StatesCarpet (i)Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Kerry Melville Reid
Dianne Fromholtz		 United StatesBillie Jean King
Rosemary Casals		1–2
Runner-up1977Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, United KingdomGrassKerry Melville Reid
Dianne Fromholtz
Wendy Turnbull		 United StatesChris Evert
Billie Jean King
Rosemary Casals		1–2
Runner-up1978Kooyong Stadium, Melbourne, AustraliaGrassKerry Melville Reid
Wendy Turnbull
Dianne Fromholtz		 United StatesChris Evert
Tracy Austin
Billie Jean King		1–2
Runner-up1979RSHE Club Campo, Madrid, SpainRed clayKerry Melville Reid
Wendy Turnbull
Dianne Fromholtz		 United StatesChris Evert Lloyd
Tracy Austin
Billie Jean King
Rosemary Casals		0–3
Runner-up1980Rot-Weiss Tennis Club, West Berlin, West GermanyRed clayDianne Fromholtz
Wendy Turnbull
Susan Leo		 United StatesChris Evert Lloyd
Tracy Austin
Rosemary Casals
Kathy Jordan		0–3
Runner-up1984Esporte Clube Pinheiros, São Paulo, BrazilRed clayElizabeth Sayers
Wendy Turnbull
Anne Minter
Elizabeth Minter		 CzechoslovakiaHana Mandlíková
Helena Suková
Iva Budařová
Marcela Skuherská		1–2
Runner-up1993Waldstadion T.C., Frankfurt, GermanyRed clayNicole Provis
Michelle Jaggard-Lai
Elizabeth Smylie
Rennae Stubbs		 SpainConchita Martínez
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
Virginia Ruano Pascual
Cristina Torrens Valero		0–3
Pending2019Perth Arena, Perth, AustraliaHard

 France

Head-to-head record
Player Record W% Hard Clay Grass Carpet
 Netherlands 8–2 80% 3–0 4–2 1–0 0–0
 Germany 8–6 57.14% 0–4 6–2 1–0 1–0
 Great Britain 7–3 70% 0–1 4–2 2–0 1–0
  Switzerland 6–1 85.71% 1–0 3–1 2–0 0–0
 Denmark 5–0 100% 2–0 2–0 1–0 0–0
 New Zealand 5–0 100% 4–0 0–0 1–0 0–0
 France 5–1 83.33% 0–0 2–0 3–0 0–1
 Italy 5–1 83.33% 3–1 2–0 0–0 0–0
 Belgium 5–3 62.5% 0–0 2–2 2–0 1–1
 United States 5–8 38.46% 0–1 3–3 2–3 0–1
 Canada 4–0 100% 1–0 2–0 1–0 0–0
 Japan 4–0 100% 1–0 2–0 1–0 0–0
 South Africa 4–0 100% 1–0 2–0 1–0 0–0
 South Korea 4–0 100% 4–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
 Argentina 4–1 80% 1–0 2–1 0–0 1–0
 Indonesia 4–1 80% 1–1 2–0 1–0 0–0
 Russia 4–3 57.1% 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–2
 Chinese Taipei 3–0 100% 3–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
 Czech Republic 3–5 37.5% 0–2 3–3 0–0 0–0
 Spain 3–7 30% 3–3 0–4 0–0 0–0
Player Record W% Hard Clay Grass Carpet
 Brazil 2–0 100% 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0
 Hungary 2–0 100% 0–0 1–0 1–0 0–0
 India 2–0 100% 2–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
 Romania 2–0 100% 1–0 0–0 0–0 1–0
 Slovakia 2–0 100% 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–0
 Sweden 2–0 100% 0–0 2–0 0–0 0–0
 Bulgaria 2–1 66.67% 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0
 China 2–1 66.67% 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–0
 Austria 2–3 40% 0–0 1–3 1–0 0–0
 Colombia 1–0 100% 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
 Finland 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
 Israel 1–0 100% 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
 Latvia 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
 Mexico 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
 Norway 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
 Philippines 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
 Serbia 1–0 100% 0–0 1–0 0–0 0–0
 Uzbekistan 1–0 100% 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–0
 Thailand 1–1 50% 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–0
 Ukraine 1–2 33.33% 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–0
*Previous champions in bold, teams that have been ranked no. 1 in italics, statistics as of 19 April 2015.

See also

Notes
  1. Most recent Year-End ranks (2015). See[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

References
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  6. Fed Cup Nations Ranking History. International Tennis Federation. 2013.
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  9. "Jelena Dokic". Women's Tennis Association. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  10. "Jarmila Wolfe". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  11. "Jessica Moore". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  12. "Anastasia Rodionova". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  13. "Olivia Rogowska". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
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  15. Gabriel, C. (6 February 2011). "Stubbs makes emotional farewell". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
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  17. "Dianne Balestrat (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  18. "Samantha Stosur (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
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  20. "Nicole Bradtke (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
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