By Richard Pagliaro | Friday, September 18, 2026
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Elena Rybakina scored a career-changing triumph in New York.
The US Open champion received’t be making the journey to Shenzhen.
New world No. 1 Rybakina has formally withdrawn from the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen as a consequence of “medical causes.”
The three-time Grand Slam champion suffered an Achillies damage ultimately month’s Cincinnati Open and will properly want restoration time after knocking off former US Open champion Coco Gauff and reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka in succession to seize the Flushing Meadows main.
Get properly quickly, Elena 🩵#BJKCup pic.twitter.com/zQow1Rpnzl
— Billie Jean King Cup (@BJKCup) September 18, 2026
The Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre Arena in Shenzhen, China will host the most important annual worldwide crew occasion in girls’s sport for the second successive 12 months.
This six-day Billie Jean King Cup Finals will probably be performed between September 22-Twenty seventh, 2026.
Two-time reigning Billie Jean King Cup champion Italy, Belgium, China, Czechia, Nice Britain, Kazakhstan, Spain and Ukraine are the eight nations to succeed in the Finals.
