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
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 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 Barty	24 April 1996	2013	2019	11	11–3	7–2	18–5	1	13
Priscilla Hon	10 May 1998	2019	2019	1	0–1	1–0	1–0	132	878
Astra Sharma	11 September 1995	–	–	0	0–0	0–0	0–0	126	109
Samantha Stosur	30 March 1984	2003	2019	32	29–20	8–1	37–21	97	26
Ajla Tomljanović	7 May 1993	2019	2019	1	1–1	0–0	1–1	56	140

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

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	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

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
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

Tournament	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	W–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 1973–1980.[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-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
Pending	2019	Perth Arena, Perth, Australia	Hard		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

• Fed Cup
• Australia at the Wightman Cup

Notes

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

References

1. "Australian Fed Cup team". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
2. "Fed Cup Champions". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
3. "Czechs to host Australia in Fed Cup World Group". Tennis Australia. 17 October 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
4. "Taylor stands down as Fed Cup coach". Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). 15 December 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
5. Matthews, B. (18 January 2013). "Former world No.8 Alicia Molik appointed new Fed Cup captain". News Limited. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
6. Fed Cup Nations Ranking History. International Tennis Federation. 2013.
7. "Ashleigh Barty". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
8. "Casey Dellacqua". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
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.
14. "Samantha Stosur". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
15. Gabriel, C. (6 February 2011). "Stubbs makes emotional farewell". International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
16. "Wendy Turnbull (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
17. "Dianne Balestrat (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
18. "Samantha Stosur (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
19. "Margaret Court (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
20. "Nicole Bradtke (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
21. "Rennae Stubbs (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
22. "Jelena Dokic (AUS)". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
23. "Records". International Tennis Federation. 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

External links

• Team page on FedCup.com, the official website of the Fed Cup