The Great Britain Fed Cup team represents the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 in Fed Cup

Fed Cup

Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation...

 tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

 competition and are governed by the Lawn Tennis Association

Lawn Tennis Association

The Lawn Tennis Association is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.As the governing body, the LTA is responsible for the coaching and development of junior players, offering courses and qualifications on coaching, as well as the...

. They currently compete in the Europe/Africa Zone of Group I.

History

Great Britain competed in its first Fed Cup in 1963

1963 Federation Cup (tennis)

The 1963 Federation Cup was the first edition of what is now known as the Fed Cup. The tournament was created provide a team competition for women, similar to the Davis Cup men's competition. 16 nations participated in the first event, which was held at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom,...

. They have reached the finals on four occasions. Great Britain are one of four nations to participate in every tournament.

Current team

• Elena Baltacha
  Elena Baltacha
  Elena Baltacha is a British professional tennis player of Ukrainian background. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Award, she is also the long standing British number 1, a position she has held intermittently since 2002. As of 24 November 2011 she holds a current world ranking of No. 50. Her...
  
   (WTA #57)
• Anne Keothavong
  Anne Keothavong
  Anne Viensouk Keothavong is a British professional tennis player. She is a former long-standing British number 1, however she is the current British number 2, behind Elena Baltacha and is ranked 71st in the world...
  
   (WTA #91)
• Heather Watson
  Heather Watson
  Heather Miriam Watson is a British female tennis player. Born in Guernsey, she trains and resides at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, USA. Watson has won one major title at the 2009 US Open Juniors, two senior ITF titles and won gold at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. She has...
  
   (WTA #142)
• Jocelyn Rae
  Jocelyn Rae
  Jocelyn Rae is a Scottish tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of 450 and a doubles high of world 209. Thus far in her career she has won one International Tennis Federation title in singles and six in doubles. Together with Colin Fleming, she won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at...
  
   (WTA doubles #263)

(team line-up and rankings correct as of 31st January 2011)

Current and former player information

Name	Total W-L	Singles W-L	Doubles W-L	No. of ties	First year played	No. of years played
Lucie Ahl	3-0	2-0	1-0	3	2002 2002 Fed Cup The 2002 Fed Cup was the 40th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The World Group was revamped once again, this time as a 16-team knockout tournament, much like the Davis Cup format. 83 nations participated in the tournament...	1
Elena Baltacha Elena Baltacha Elena Baltacha is a British professional tennis player of Ukrainian background. Being a four-time winner of the AEGON Award, she is also the long standing British number 1, a position she has held intermittently since 2002. As of 24 November 2011 she holds a current world ranking of No. 50. Her...	28-14	15-7	13-7	33	2002 2002 Fed Cup The 2002 Fed Cup was the 40th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The World Group was revamped once again, this time as a 16-team knockout tournament, much like the Davis Cup format. 83 nations participated in the tournament...	10
Sue Barker Sue Barker Susan Barker, MBE is an English television presenter and former professional tennis player. During her tennis career, she won the women's singles title at the French Open and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 3...	31-13	15-8	16-5	27	1974	9
Sarah Borwell Sarah Borwell Sarah Leah Borwell is an English professional tennis player who specialises primarily in doubles. She is currently the British number 1 in doubles, ranked 67 in the world...	3-2	0-0	3-2	6	2009 2009 Fed Cup The 2009 Fed Cup was the 47th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis...	2
Amanda Brown	4-3	2-1	2-2	4	1984	1
Naomi Cavaday Naomi Cavaday Naomi Kathleen Cavaday is an English former tennis player from Sidcup, Kent. She retired in April 2011 to take up a coaching role with the Lawn Tennis Association. At the time of her retirement she was the British No.6, with a world ranking of No. 231. Her career high ranking was No. 174,...	0-3	0-3	0-0	3	2007 2007 Fed Cup The 2007 Fed Cup is the 45th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis. 74 nations participated in the tournament...	1
Glynis Coles Glynis Coles Glynis Coles , also known by her married name Glynis Coles-Bond, is a retired English professional tennis player.Coles played professionally between 1970 and 1988, playing both singles and doubles...	9-4	4-2	5-2	9	1974	3
Hannah Collin	1-2	1-1	0-1	2	2000 2000 Fed Cup The 2000 Fed Cup was the 38th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. Changes were made to the World Group; there was one group of 13 teams, rather than two groups as in the past. The group played in three round-robin pools, with the winner of each pool...	1
Annabel Croft Annabel Croft Annabel Croft is a former professional tennis player and current radio and television presenter. As a tennis player she won the WTA Tour event Virginia Slims of San Diego and represented Great Britain in the Fed Cup and the Wightman Cup.After retiring from tennis, she turned to television...	9-2	6-1	3-1	7	1985	2
Karen Cross	1-3	1-2	0-1	4	1994	2
Claire Curran Claire Curran Claire Curran is an ex-professional female tennis player.Curran represented both Great Britain and Ireland in the Fed Cup during her career. She has a Fed Cup win-loss record of 20–7. She specialised primarily in doubles and reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No.89...	6-2	0-0	6-2	8	2006 2006 Fed Cup The 2006 Fed Cup was the 44th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. A total of 76 nations participated in the tournament...	2
Jo Durie Jo Durie Jo Durie is a former world number 5 professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles.-Singles career:...	34-22	12-16	22-6	37	1981	14
Sara Gomer Sara Gomer Sara Louise Gomer is a former tennis player from Great Britain.Gomer competed for her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...	11-4	6-4	5-0	10	1987	3
Amanda Grunfeld	2-0	0-0	2-0	2	1993	1
Anne Hobbs Anne Hobbs Anne Hobbs is a British former professional tennis player.-Tennis career:Hobbs represented Great Britain in the Wightman Cup and Federation Cup from 1978 to 1989...	21-12	4-5	17-7	26	1978	9
Christine Truman Janes	8-5	6-3	2-2	9	1963	3
Monique Javer Monique Javer Monique Alicia Javer is an ex-professional tennis player who represented Great Britain and was at one time the British number 1. She turned professional in 1985 and played her final professional match in 2000...	7-3	7-3	0-0	10	1990	4
Ann Jones Ann Haydon-Jones Ann Haydon-Jones Ann Haydon-Jones Ann Haydon-Jones (born Adrianne Shirley Haydon on 7 October 1938 in Birmingham, United Kingdom, is a former table tennis and lawn tennis champion...	21-12	10-7	11-5	18	1963	6
Amanda Keen	2-1	2-0	0-1	3	2004 2004 Fed Cup The 2004 Fed Cup was the 42nd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 77 nations participated in the tournament...	1
Deidre Keller	6-2	3-1	3-1	5	1963	3
Anne Keothavong Anne Keothavong Anne Viensouk Keothavong is a British professional tennis player. She is a former long-standing British number 1, however she is the current British number 2, behind Elena Baltacha and is ranked 71st in the world...	18-19	17-16	1-3	33	2001 2001 Fed Cup The 2001 Fed Cup was the 39th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The World Group was reduced to 8 teams, divided into two pools, with the winners meeting in the finals. 90 nations participated in the tournament. The World Group was held at the...	10
Valda Lake	0-1	0-0	0-1	1	1996 1996 Fed Cup The 1996 Fed Cup was the 34th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 8 teams competed in the World Group and 87 nations competed in total...	1
Louise Latimer	8-5	4-5	4-0	11	1998 1998 Fed Cup The 1998 Fed Cup was the 36th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 97 nations participated in the tournament...	4
Sarah Loosemore Sarah Loosemore Sarah Loosemore is a Welsh retired professional tennis player, now a qualified solicitor.Born in Cardiff but brought up in Dinas Powys by solicitor father John and tennis coach mother Pamela, Loosemore played on the WTA from the late 1980s until 1992. The youngest ever female British competitor at...	2-1	2-1	0-0	3	1990	1
Katie O'Brien Katie O'Brien Katie Jill O'Brien is an English former professional tennis player from Beverley, Yorkshire. She was briefly the British No. 1 tennis player...	4-5	3-3	1-2	8	2005 2005 Fed Cup The 2005 Fed Cup was the 43rd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 76 nations participated in the tournament...	3
Jane O'Donoghue	4-7	1-2	3-5	11	2003 2003 Fed Cup The 2003 Fed Cup was the 41st edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 79 nations participated in the tournament...	3
Julie Pullin Julie Pullin Julie Pullin was a British female tennis player who turned professional in 1993. She won 8 International Tennis Federation singles titles and 26 ITF doubles titles in her career, many with compatriot Lorna Woodroffe...	19-10	5-3	14-7	26	1994	9
Jocelyn Rae Jocelyn Rae Jocelyn Rae is a Scottish tennis player with a career-high singles ranking of 450 and a doubles high of world 209. Thus far in her career she has won one International Tennis Federation title in singles and six in doubles. Together with Colin Fleming, she won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at...	2-0	0-0	2-0	2	2011 2011 Fed Cup The 2011 Fed Cup is the 49th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis...	1
Julie Salmon Julie Salmon Julie Salmon is a former British international tennis player. She competed in the Fed Cup a number of times, from 1988 to 1993.- External links :* at australianopen.com...	8-3	0-0	8-3	11	1988	2
Shirli-Ann Siddall	0-2	0-2	0-0	2	1995 1995 Fed Cup The 1995 Fed Cup was the 33rd edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis, and the first to bear the name Fed Cup. Major changes to the tournament's structure went into effect for 1995. The format was changed to a multi-tiered league system similar to the...	1
Samantha Smith Samantha Smith (tennis) Samantha Smith was the number 1 ranked British ladies tennis player from 1996–1999, and now commentates on the game, predominantly for the BBC, Sky Sports and Eurosport, as well as Channel Seven in Australia during the Australian Open.-Early life:Smith was born in Essex, and educated at Bancroft's...	10-5	9-4	1-1	13	1996 1996 Fed Cup The 1996 Fed Cup was the 34th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 8 teams competed in the World Group and 87 nations competed in total...	3
Melanie South Melanie South Melanie Jayne South is an English tennis player. She is currently the British number 7 and ranked 310 in the world...	3-2	1-0	2-2	4	2008 2008 Fed Cup The 2008 Fed Cup was the 46th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis. 8 teams contested the World Group, and 85 teams competed in total...	2
Elizabeth Starkie	2-1	0-0	2-1	3	1966	1
Michelle Tyler	2-3	1-1	1-2	5	1976	3
Rachel Viollet	2-0	1-0	1-0	2	2002 2002 Fed Cup The 2002 Fed Cup was the 40th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. The World Group was revamped once again, this time as a 16-team knockout tournament, much like the Davis Cup format. 83 nations participated in the tournament...	1
Virginia Wade Virginia Wade Sarah Virginia Wade, OBE is a former English tennis player. She won three Grand Slam singles championships and four Grand Slam doubles championships. She won the women's singles championship at Wimbledon on 1 July 1977, in that tournament's centenary year, the last time any Briton has won a...	66-33	36-20	30-13	57	1967	17
Joanne Ward	6-1	3-1	3-0	6	1999 1999 Fed Cup The 1999 Fed Cup was the 37th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 95 nations participated in the tournament...	2
Heather Watson Heather Watson Heather Miriam Watson is a British female tennis player. Born in Guernsey, she trains and resides at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, USA. Watson has won one major title at the 2009 US Open Juniors, two senior ITF titles and won gold at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. She has...	4-1	2-1	2-0	3	2011 2011 Fed Cup The 2011 Fed Cup is the 49th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis...	1
Joyce Williams	6-5	1-2	5-3	9	1969	4
Clare Wood Clare Wood Clare Jacqueline Wood is a former British number 1 tennis player from Great Britain who began playing professionally in 1984 and retired in 1998...	34-18	18-10	16-8	36	1988	10
Lorna Woodroffe	7-3	0-0	7-3	10	1997 1997 Fed Cup The 1997 Fed Cup was the 35th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 8 nations competed in the World Group and 96 nations competed in total...	3
Winnie Wooldridge	15-9	9-4	6-5	19	1966	6