Leylah Fernandez, seen above in April, will lead Team Canada into the Billie Jean King Cup finals beginning Tuesday in Spain.
Canada has never so much as reached the final at the Billie Jean King Cup, the international women’s tennis tournament that launched in 1963. But with a strong roster featuring Leylah Fernandez and reigning U.S. Open women’s doubles champion Gabriela Dabrowski, that drought could be over by Sunday. One year after Canada's men snapped a lengthy tennis drought, the women have an opportunity to follow suit.
"We totally deserve to be there and we're competing with the best teams, but I am very, very confident that my girls are going to perform well and give it their all," team captain Heidi El Tabakh told CBC Sports. The Canadian men's team won the Davis Cup for the first time in 109 years last season, riding a miraculous run that began with them not even in the field for the finals and ended with a trophy celebration in Spain.
Dabrowski, along with partner Erin Routliffe, won her third Grand Slam title and first in women's doubles in September in New York. Fernandez, the highest-ranked singles player at No. 35, snagged her third career WTA title in October in Hong Kong, then followed it up with a run to the semifinals in Jiangxi, China, a week later.Gabriela Dabrowski speaks to CBC Sports about being the first Canadian to win a major title in the women’s doubles event at the U.S. Open.
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