{"id":26014,"date":"2025-11-02T09:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/alizee-cornet-named-captain-of-frances-billie-jean-king-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:03:28","slug":"alizee-cornet-named-captain-of-frances-billie-jean-king-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/02\/alizee-cornet-named-captain-of-frances-billie-jean-king-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliz\u00e9e Cornet named captain of France&#8217;s Billie Jean King Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PARIS &#8211; Aliz\u00e9e Cornet has been named France&#8217;s captain for the Billie Jean King Cup, months after retiring as a player.<\/p>\n<p>The French Tennis Federation announced the nominations on Sunday, saying Cornet stood out from other candidates because of his &#8220;investment in French tennis, his profile, his motivation and his playing field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She replaces Julien Beneteau, who had held the role since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Cornet&#8217;s role will also include preparing the French Olympic team for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, monitoring national team players during competition, and supervising youth teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful for the trust the federation has placed in me and am determined to do everything I can to help our players reach their full potential,&#8221; Cornet said in a statement. \u201cMy aim is to build a strong team spirit based on high standards, cohesiveness and a passion for France Jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cornet was defeated in the first round of the French Open in May and retired from active play.<\/p>\n<p>During a 20-year career in which she was hailed as a young prodigy, Cornet reached a career-high ranking of No. 11 in 2009 and won six titles as a solid baseline player with a powerful backhand.<\/p>\n<p>She holds the record for most consecutive Grand Slam tournament appearances by a woman, with 69 appearances, from the 2007 Australian Open to this year&#8217;s French Open.<\/p>\n<p>An avid writer, Cornet published his first novel \u201cLa Valse des Jours\u201d (Waltz of the Days) in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &#8211; Aliz\u00e9e Cornet has been named France&#8217;s captain for the Billie Jean King Cup, months after retiring as a player. The French Tennis Federation announced the nominations on Sunday, saying Cornet stood out from other candidates because of his &#8220;investment in French tennis, his profile, his motivation and his playing field.&#8221; She replaces Julien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6780,6782,2748,6781,913,1960,6033,2716,440,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-26014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alizee","9":"tag-billie","10":"tag-captain","11":"tag-cornet","12":"tag-cup","13":"tag-frances","14":"tag-jean","15":"tag-king","16":"tag-named","17":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}