Ireland Billie Jean King Cup team: Difference between revisions

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Irish women’s tennis team

Ireland
Captain Yvonne Doyle
ITF ranking 67 Increase 1 (16 November 2015)
Colors green & white
First year 1964
Years played 49
Ties played (W–L) 166 (79–87)
Years in
World Group
12 (1–12)
Best finish World Group 2R (1964, 1972)
Most total wins Gina Niland (34–19)
Most singles wins Gina Niland (22–14)
Most doubles wins Karen Nugent (16–7)
Best doubles team Siobhán Nicholson /
Gina Niland (5–1)
Yvonne Doyle /
Karen Nugent (5–1)
Most ties played Gina Niland (42)
Most years played Gina Niland (12)

The Ireland Billie Jean King Cup team represents Ireland in the Billie Jean King Cup tennis competition and are governed by Tennis Ireland. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group III.

Ireland competed in its first Fed Cup, as it was then known, in 1964. Their best result was reaching the round of 16 in 1972.

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