{"id":12065,"date":"2026-04-03T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:00:48","slug":"injured-sonay-kartal-out-of-great-britains-billie-jean-king-cup-qualifier-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=12065","title":{"rendered":"Injured Sonay Kartal out of Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sonay Kartal has withdrawn from Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia in Melbourne next week because of injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The absence of the British number two means Britain will be without their four highest-ranked players, after Emma Raducaunu, Katie Boulter and Francesca Jones were not included in the initial squad as they focus on their clay-court seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It leaves world number 181 Harriet Dart as the team&#8217;s highest-ranked singles player for the tie, which takes place on 10-11 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kartal, 24, said she had not yet recovered from the lower back issue which forced her retirement from a fourth-round Indian Wells match against world number three Elena Rybakina last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After having some scans it is clear that I&#8217;m going to need a little more time to let it heal,&#8221; Kartal said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonay Kartal has withdrawn from Great Britain&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup qualifier against Australia in Melbourne next week because of injury. The absence of the British number two means Britain will be without their four highest-ranked players, after Emma Raducaunu, Katie Boulter and Francesca Jones were not included in the initial squad as they focus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}