Billie Jean King Cup Finals 2025: Schedule of play, Prize Money, Draw, Results and Predictions

The Billie Jean King Cup Finals has moved this year and takes place between September 16-21 in Shenzhen, China with defending champions Italy and USA leading the way in a line-up featuring some top names.

Jessica Pegula, Jasmine Paolini, Elena Rybakina, Paula Badosa and Elina Svitolina all represent their nations aiming for glory. The ties consist of best-of-three rubbers played on one day. This consists of two singles and where needed a doubles match. The finals feature eight teams competing in straight knockout.

It is the first time it will be played outside of the usual November slot alongside the Davis Cup Finals and likely is a move done to help those WTA stars play the event with often the Finals in Saudi Arabia making it impossible for the top names to commit.

As a result aside from Emma Raducanu, Zheng Qinwen and Naomi Osaka who have withdrawn we have a good contingent of top names and often those not playing have only done so to play tour tennis instead in Asia.

Draw Billie Jean King Cup Finals

Draw Bracket

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals
1  Italy		Winner QF1 vs Winner QF2		Final
China
4  Spain
Ukraine
Kazakhstan		Winner QF3 vs Winner QF4
3  United States
Japan
2  Great Britain

Schedule/Results Billie Jean King Cup Finals

Quarterfinals — Shenzhen, China — Hard (i) : Italy vs China

Rubber	Home Player(s)	Away Player(s)	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Score
1	Lucia Bronzetti	Wang Xinyu
2	Jasmine Paolini	Yuan Yue
3 (Doubles)	Sara Errani / Jasmine Paolini	Jiang Xinyu / Zhang Shuai

Quarterfinals — Shenzhen, China — Hard (i) : Spain vs Ukraine

Rubber	Home Player(s)	Away Player(s)	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Score
1	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	Marta Kostyuk
2	Paula Badosa	Elina Svitolina
3 (Doubles)	Aliona Bolsova / Cristina Bucșa	Lyudmyla Kichenok / Nadiia Kichenok

Quarterfinals — Shenzhen, China — Hard (i) : Kazakhstan vs United States

Rubber	Home Player(s)	Away Player(s)	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Score
1	Yulia Putintseva	Jessica Pegula
2	Elena Rybakina	Emma Navarro
3 (Doubles)	Anna Danilina / Zhibek Kulambayeva	McCartney Kessler / Taylor Townsend

Quarterfinals — Shenzhen, China — Hard (i) : Japan vs Great Britain

Rubber	Home Player(s)	Away Player(s)	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Score
1	Moyuka Uchijima	Katie Boulter
2	Ena Shibahara	Sonay Kartal
3 (Doubles)	Shuko Aoyama / Eri Hozumi	Jodie Burrage / Sonay Kartal

Prize Money

The prize money has yet to be confirmed for the tournament with 2024 gleaming a $9.6m purse with the 2024 champions receiving a combined $2.4m. This will likely be increased with the tournament moving to Shenzhen for the first time.

As was the case with the WTA Finals when it initially was played in Shenzhen before COVID, it saw a heightened amount and the expectation will be for the same here. It will be updated here when it is known.

Predictions

Samuel Gill, Head Editor for TennisUpToDate.com sees a USA side lifting the first title in China.

A bit of a weird spot for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals this year. It is moved to accommodate seemingly most of the top names heading to Asia for the hard court swing in the coming weeks.

But the knock on is that it has become in many ways a bit anonymous compared to its stand out slot in November at the same time as the Davis Cup Finals. Italy are defending champions and truthfully it is hard to look past them due to the leading duo.