The 2023 Billie Jean King Cup Juniors by Gainbridge Finals get underway in Córdoba on Monday and here are some stats and facts to whet the appetite.

The Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals are the culmination of a season-long competition which sees nations navigate qualifying events across five regions – Asia/Oceania, Europe, Africa, South America and North/Central America and the Caribbean.

Sixteen teams will now compete at the Finals, which are being held across two sites – Open Arena, Córdoba and the Real Aeroclub de Córdoba – in a bid to be crowned the world’s best in the 16-and-under age category.

Previous winning teams have featured the likes of Ashleigh Barty, Iga Swiatek, Marketa Vondrousova and Coco Gauff, underlining the importance of the event in terms of player development.

Here are some stats and facts on the 16 nations involved.

Algeria

2023 Team: Maria Badache, Wissal Boudjemaoui, Melissa Rym Ben Amar Kerfah

Captain: Djillali Laslah

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: N/A

Finals appearances: 0

Last Finals appearance: N/A

2023 will be Algeria’s first appearance at the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals

 

Argentina

2023 Team: Sol Larraya Guidi, Josefina Estevez, Agustina Grassi

Captain: Geronimo Degreef

Champions: 2

Highest-placed finish: 1st (1999, 2004)

Finals appearances: 32

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Australia

2023 Team: Emerson Jones, Tahlia Kokkinis, Koharu Nishikawa

Captain: Olivia Rich

Champions: 5

Highest-placed finish: 1st (1987, 1988, 1993, 2007, 2011)

Finals appearances: 22

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Brazil

2023 Team: Carolina Bohrer, Helena Caruso Bueno, Pietra Rosolen Rivoli

Captain: Fernanda Barbosa Ferreira

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 3rd (2012)

Finals appearances: 22

Last Finals appearance: 2019

 

Canada

2023 Team: Nadia Lagaev, Isabella Marton, Addison Comiskey 

Captain: Rodrigo Alvarez

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 2nd (2003, 2004, 2011)

Finals appearances: 26

Last Finals appearance: 2021

 

Colombia

2023 Team: Valentina Mediorreal Arias, Mariana Isabel Higiuta Barraza, Maria Jose Sanchez Uribe

Captain: Francisco Jose Franco Benavides

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 8th (2017)

Finals appearances: 12

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Czechia

2023 Team: Laura Samsonova, Alena Kovackova, Eliska Forejtkova

Captain: David Skoch

Champions: 5

Highest-placed finish: 1st (1995*, 2000, 2001, 2015, 2021) *competed as Czechoslovakia

Finals appearances: 26

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Egypt

2023 Team: Jana Hossam Salah, Karina Mohamed, Jian Ibrahim

Captain: Omar Hedayet

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 9th (2012)

Finals appearances: 8

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Great Britain

2023 Team: Hannah Klugman, Mingge Xu, Hephzibah Oluwadare

Captain: Katie O’Brien

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 2nd (2008)

Finals appearances: 6

Last Finals appearance: 2016

 

Japan

Team 2023: Wakana Sonobe, Shiho Tsujioka, Kiko Inoue

Captain: Masashi Yoshikawa

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 2nd (2017, 2021)

Finals appearances: 30

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Kazakhstan

2023 Team: Polina Sleptsova, Ariana Gogulina, Anastassia Krymkova

Captain: Marat Sharipov

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: N/A

Finals appearances: 0

Last Finals appearance: N/A

2023 will be Kazakhstan’s first appearance at the Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Finals

 

Latvia

2023 Team: Adelina Lacinova, Beatrise Zeltina, Kamilla Cernousova

Captain: Mihails Hmelnickis

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 5th (2018)

Finals appearances: 3

Last Finals appearance: 2018

 

Serbia

2023 Team: Teodora Kostovic, Lana Virc, Masa Jankovic

Captain: Slobodan Rankovic

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 4th (2022)

Finals appearances: 3 (Yugoslavia also competed at the 1990 and 1999 editions)

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Spain

2023 Team: Charo Esquiva Banuls, Lorena Solar Donoso, Neus Torner Sensano

Captain: Emilio Viuda Hernandez

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 3rd (1989, 1993)

Finals appearances: 15

Last Finals appearance: 2022

 

Sweden

2023 Team: Nellie Taraba Wallberg, Lea Nilsson, Tiana Tian Deng

Captain: Carl Ackered

Champions: 0

Highest-placed finish: 8th (1998)

Finals appearances: 2

Last Finals appearance: 2000

 

United States

2023 Team: Iva Jovic, Tyra Grant, Alanis Hamilton

Captain: Tom Gutteridge

Champions: 7

Highest-placed finish: 1st (2008, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022)

Finals appearances: 32

Last Finals appearance: 2022