The Austria Billie Jean King Cup team represents

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was cha ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

competition and are governed by the Osterreichischer Tennisverband. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Group I.

History

Austria competed in its first Fed Cup in

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...

. They have reached the semifinals on three occasions.

Current team (2020)

Melanie Klaffner Melanie Klaffner (; born 22 May 1990) is an Austrian tennis player. Klaffner has won 15 singles and 23 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 27 January 2014, she reached her best singles ranking of No. 175 in the world. On 25 May 2009, she pea ...

Mira Antonitsch Mira Antonitsch (born 16 December 1998) is an Austrian tennis player. Antonitsch has won two singles and five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 12 June 2017, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 507. On 4 November 2019, ...

Julia Grabher Julia Grabher (born 2 July 1996) is an Austrian tennis player. Grabher has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour, along with eleven singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 26 December 2022, she reached her bes ...

Sinja Kraus Sinja Kraus (born 29 April 2002) is an Austrian tennis player. Kraus has career-high WTA rankings of 192 in singles and world No. 345 in doubles, both achieved January 2023. She reached a career-high ITF juniors ranking of No. 87, on 21 January ...

External links

* Billie Jean King Cup teams

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