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The South Korea Fed Cup team represents
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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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
Korea Tennis Association Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) comprising its northern half and South Korea (Republic o ...
. They currently compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group I.


History

South Korea competed in its first Fed Cup in
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. Their best result was qualifying for World Group II in
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, and reaching the round of 16 on five occasions.


Current team (2017)

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Jang Su-jeong Jang Su-jeong ( ko, 장수정 ; born 13 March 1995) is a South Korean tennis player. Jang has won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as ten singles titles and thirteen doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 11 July 2022, she ...
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Han Na-lae Han Na-lae ( ko, 한나래; born 6 July 1992) is a South Korean tennis player. Han has a career-high singles ranking of 149, achieved June 2019. She reached the top 100 in doubles for the first time with a ranking of 96, on 31 October 2022. H ...
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Kim Na-ri Kim Na-ri (born 4 April 1990) is a South Korean nearly inactive tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 285 in singles, achieved on 7 June 2010, and 221 in doubles, set on 20 August 2018. Kim has won five singles and 16 doubles tit ...
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Choi Ji-hee Choi Ji-hee ( ko, 최지희; born 10 February 1995) is a professional South Korean tennis player. Choi has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour, one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour as well as three singles and 19 doubles titles on t ...


Players

''Last Updated: 27 August 2019''


See also

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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 ...
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South Korea Davis Cup team The South Korea men's national tennis team represents South Korea in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Korea Tennis Association. In 2020, South Korea will compete in World Group I. Current team (March 2020) 2020 Davis Cu ...


External links

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Korea, South South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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