Billie Jean King Cup Finals schedule, teams and how to watch on TV

Great Britain play Japan in their quarter-final, with Italy the defending champions

Katie Boulter and captain Anne Keothavong before the Billie Jean King Cup finals in Shenzhen, China (Getty Images for LTA)

Great Britain go in search of Billie Jean King Cup glory as the finals of the team competition take place in Shenzhen, China.

Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal, Jodie Burrage and Fran Jones make up the Great Britain team named by captain Anne Keothavong - after Emma Raducanu withdrew from the squad in order to play the WTA 500 event in Seoul this week.

Boulter and Kartal helped Keothavong’s side team past Japan and into the semi-finals for the second year in a row, where Great Britain will face the USA on Saturday.

Defending champions Italy are through to their third straight final after Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani won the decisive doubles match against Ukraine in the semi-finals.

Here’s everything you need to know.

Billie Jean King Cup Finals schedule

Quarter-finals

Tuesday 16 September: Italy def. China 2-0

Elisabetta Cocciaretto def. Yuan Yue 4-6 7-5 7-5

Jasmine Paolini def. Wang Xinyu 4-6 7-6 (4) 6-4

Wednesday 17 September: Ukraine def. Spain 2-0

Marta Kostyuk def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 7-6(3) 6-2

Elina Svitolina def. Paula Badosa 5-7 6-2 7-5

Thursday 18 September: USA def. Kazakhstan 2-1

Emma Navarro def. Yulia Putintseva 7-5 2-6 7-6(6)

Elena Rybakina def. Jessica Pegula 6-4 6-1

Pegula/Townsend def. Putintseva/Rybakina 6-2 7-6

Thursday 18 September: Great Britain def. Japan 2-0

Sonay Kartal def. E Shibahara 6-3 7-6 (7-4)

Katie Boulter def. M Uchijima 6-2 6-1

Semi-finals

Friday 19 September: Italy def. Ukraine 2-1

Marta Kostyuk def. Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 6-2, 6-3.

Jasmine Paolini def. Elina Svitolina, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4

Errani / Paolini def. Kostyuk / Kichenok 6-2, 6-3

Saturday 20 September: USA v Great Britain, 10:00

Final

Sunday 21 September: Italy vs USA/ Great Britain, 10:00

How to watch Billie Jean King Cup Finals

Great Britain’s ties will be shown on the BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website, starting with the quarter-final against Japan on Thursday. Tennis Channel will be showing every tie.

China

Wang Xinyu

Yuan Yue

Wang Xiyu

Zhang Shuai

Jiang Xinyu

Great Britain

Katie Boulter

Sonay Kartal

Jodie Burrage

Francesca Jones

Italy

Jasmine Paolini (8)

Lucia Bronzetti

Elisabetta Cocciaretto

Tyra Grant

Sara Errani

Japan

Moyuka Uchijima

Nao Hibino

Ena Shibahara

Eri Hozumi

Shuko Aoyama

Kazakhstan

Elena Rybakina (10)

Yulia Putintseva

Zarina Diyas

Anna Danilina

Zhibek Kulambayeva

Spain

Paula Badosa (20)

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro

Cristina Bucsa

Aliona Bolsova

Leyre Romero

Ukraine

Elina Svitolina (13)

Marta Kostyuk (26)

Lyudmyla Kichenok

Nadiia Kichenok

Yuliia Starodubtseva

USA

Jessica Pegula (7)

Emma Navarro (18)

McCartney Kessler

Hailey Baptiste

Taylor Townsend