2020–21 Billie Jean King Cup

2020 Fed Cup
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Edition	58th
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The 2020 Fed Cup is the 58th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis.

For this edition, the format of the cup is changed.^[1] The main modification is the World Group taking place at one location and in one week, with twelve teams divided in four round-robin groups of three teams each, with the winners of each group advancing to the semi-finals. The series between the teams in this stage will feature two singles matches and one doubles match. As the World Group will now take place as one single tournament, the event has been named the Fed Cup Finals. The lower zone groups I, II and III will be composed of round-robin group play deciding promotion or relegation.

Fed Cup Finals

Date: 14–19 April 2020
Venue: Budapest Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary
Surface: Clay court^[1]

12 nations will take part in the Finals, formerly known as World Group. The qualification is as follows:

2 finalists of the previous edition
1 host nation
1 wild card^[2]
8 winners of a qualifier round, in February 2020

Participating teams
Australia	Belarus	Belgium	Czech Republic (WC)	France (TH)	Germany
Hungary (H)	Russia	Slovakia	Spain	Switzerland	United States

Qualifying round

Date: 7–8 February 2020

Sixteen teams will play for eight spots in the Finals, in series decided on a home and away basis.^[1]

These sixteen teams are:

2 losing semifinalists of the previous edition,
7 winners & losers of World Group Play-offs of previous edition, and
4 winners of World Group II Play-offs of previous edition, and
3 losers of World Group II Play-offs of previous edition, based on rankings

The 8 losing teams from the qualifying round will play the new Play-offs, which will rank the 8 nations that were promoted from the Regional Group I from Americas, Europe/Africa and Asia/Oceania, to see who will play the 2021 Qualifiers and who will stay in the Regional Group I in 2021.

#: Nations Ranking as of 29 June 2019.

United States (2019 Quarterfinalist, #2)
Belarus (2019 Semifinalist, #5)
Romania (2019 Semifinalist, #6)
Germany (2019 Quarterfinalist, #7)
Spain (2019 WG Play-off winner, #8)
Switzerland (2019 WG Play-off loser, #9)
Belgium (2019 Quarterfinalist, #10)
Great Britain (2019 WG II Play-off winner, #11)
Latvia (2019 WG Play-off loser, #12)
Canada (2019 WG Play-off loser, #13)
Japan (2019 WG II Play-off winner, #14)
Slovakia (2019 WG II Play-off winner, #15)
Russia (2019 WG II Play-off winner, #16)
Kazakhstan (best ranked WG II Play-off loser, #17)
Brazil (2nd best ranked WG II Play-off loser, #18)
Netherlands (3rd best ranked WG II Play-off loser, #19)

Home team	Score	Away team	Location	Venue	Surface	Ref.
United States [1]	3–2	Latvia	Everett	Angel of the Winds Arena	Hard (i)
Netherlands	2–3	Belarus [2]	The Hague	Sportcampus Zuiderpark	Clay (i)
Romania [3]	2–3	Russia	Cluj-Napoca	BT Arena	Hard (i)
Brazil	0–4	Germany [4]	Florianópolis	Costão do Santinho Resort	Clay
Spain [5]	3–1	Japan	Cartagena	Centro de Tenis La Manga Club	Clay
Switzerland [6]	3–1	Canada	Biel/Bienne	Swiss Tennis Arena	Hard (i)
Belgium [7]	3–1	Kazakhstan	Kortrijk	SC Lange Munte	Hard (i)
Slovakia	3–1	Great Britain [8]	Bratislava	AXA Aréna NTC	Clay (i)	^[3]

Group stage

	Qualified for the Knockout stage

T = Ties, M = Matches, S = Sets

Group	Winners				Runners-up				Third
Group	Nation	T	M	S	Nation	T	M	S	Nation	T	M	S
A	France	–	–	–	Russia	–	–	–	Hungary	–	–	–
B	Australia	–	–	–	Belarus	–	–	–	Belgium	–	–	–
C	United States	–	–	–	Spain	–	–	–	Slovakia	–	–	–
D	Czech Republic	–	–	–	Germany	–	–	–	Switzerland	–	–	–

Knockout stage


	Semifinals					Final

	18 April


						19 April


	18 April

Final

Play-offs

Date: 17–18 April 2020

Sixteen teams will play for eight spots in the 2021 Qualifying Round, in series decided on a home and away basis.^[1]

These Sixteen teams are:

8 losing teams from Qualifying round.
8 winning teams from their Group I zone.

Eight winners will advance to the 2021 Qualifying Round and eight losers will contest their respective regional Group I event in 2021.

Seeded teams

Unseeded teams

Home team	Score	Away team	Location	Venue	Surface
Poland	–	Brazil
Mexico	–	Great Britain
Serbia	–	Canada
Latvia	–	TBC
Japan	–	Ukraine	Osaka	Utsubo Tennis Center	Hard
Romania	–	Italy
Argentina	–	Kazakhstan
Netherlands	–	TBC	s-Hertogenbosch	Maaspoort Sports & Events

Americas Zone

Group I

Venue: Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile (clay)

Dates: 5–8 February 2020

Participating teams

Pool A

Pool B

Argentina
Chile
Mexico
Peru

Play-offs

Mexico and Argentina were promoted to the 2020 Fed Cup Play-offs.
Venezuela and Peru were relegated to Americas Zone Group II in 2021.

Group II

Venue 1: Club de Tenis La Paz, La Paz, Bolivia (clay)
Venue 2: Centro de Alto Rendimiento Fred Maduro, Panama City, Panama (clay)

Dates: 10–13 June 2020

Participating teams

La Paz

Panama City