No Raducanu Or Boulter In Gb's Bjk Cup Squad

Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter will beryllium absent erstwhile Great Britain look Australia successful their Billie Jean King Cup qualifier adjacent month.

Raducanu, nan British number 1 and world number 24, has committed to playing nan WTA 500 clay-court tourney successful Linz, Austria, which runs crossed nan aforesaid week.

Boulter, classed 64th successful nan world, besides misses nan tie.

GB skipper Anne Keothavong has alternatively selected Sonay Kartal, Harriet Dart, Jodie Burrage and 17-year-old Mika Stojsavljevic for nan title that will beryllium staged successful Melbourne connected 10-11 April.

A 5th subordinate tin beryllium added to nan squad nearer nan time.

Keothavong, who it was thought would look a reliable task persuading nan apical British players to recreation to Australia for a hard-court necktie astatine a clip erstwhile nan European clay tribunal play is getting nether way, described nan best-of-five brushwood arsenic "tough".