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The Billie Jean King Cup by BNP Paribas Finals will feature 12 teams – eight qualifiers, the previous year’s champions and runners-up, plus Czech Republic and Canada.

The 12 teams will compete in four round-robin groups of three teams. The four group winners will qualify for the semi-finals.

The Billie Jean King Cup champions will be crowned after the completion of the knockout phase.

The two finalists will qualify automatically for the 2022 Finals. The nations that finish in 3rd-12th positions will contest the 2022 Qualifiers. These teams will also be eligible to receive a wild card into the 2022 Finals, along with the winners of the 2021 Play-offs.

Group A: France (1), Russian Tennis Federation (RTF), Canada
Group B: Australia (2), Belarus, Belgium
Group C: USA (3), Spain, Slovakia
Group D: Czech Republic (4), Germany, Switzerland

The 2021-22 UEFA Champions League is the 30th season of Europe’s primary club football tournament.

Real Madrid are the most successful club in European Cup history, with 13 titles, ahead of AC Milan (7), Bayern Munich (6) and Liverpool (6).

The final will be played at the Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg on May 28, 2022.

The UEFA Champions League is contested by the highest ranked teams of the strongest UEFA national associations. It is the top club competition in European football and one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world. The Champions League final is the most watched annual sporting event worldwide.

The 2021-22 UEFA Champions League is the 30th season of Europe’s primary club football tournament.

Real Madrid are the most successful club in European Cup history, with 13 titles, ahead of AC Milan (7), Bayern Munich (6) and Liverpool (6).

The final will be played at the Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg on May 28, 2022.

The UEFA Champions League is contested by the highest ranked teams of the strongest UEFA national associations. It is the top club competition in European football and one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world. The Champions League final is the most watched annual sporting event worldwide.

The 2021-22 UEFA Europa League is the 51st season of Europe’s secondary club football tournament. The final will be played at Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in Seville, Spain, on 18 May 2022.

The winners automatically qualify for the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League group stage, and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2021-2022 UEFA Champions League in the 2021 UEFA Super Cup.

Clubs qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national league and club competitions. 48 teams reach the group stage.

Introduced for the 2021–22 season, the UEFA Europa Conference League will be an annual football club competition, serving as the bottom level of the existing UEFA Europa League competition, which was reduced from 48 to 32 teams in the group stage. The competition will primarily be contested by teams from lower-ranked UEFA member associations. No teams qualify directly to the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League play-offs and the rest coming from the Europa Conference League qualifiers. The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the Champions League.

The Formula One World Championship is the highest class of single-seat auto racing, sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), using the fastest road course racing cars in the world.

The 23 Grands Prix races making up the 72nd World Championship are held worldwide on purpose-built circuits and public roads from March to November. Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes are respectively the reigning Drivers' and Constructors' World Champions in 2020.

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The 2021 WTA Finals, also known as the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen, is a women's tennis tournament originally scheduled to take place at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Shenzhen, China. However, due to travel restrictions owing to COVID-19, the Finals will instead take place at the Panamerican Tennis Center in Guadalajara - the first time Mexico will have hosted the Finals. It is the 50th edition of the singles event and the 45th of the doubles competition. The tournament is contested by eight singles players and eight doubles teams.

The Finals, formerly known as World Group, will be the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2021. Delayed from 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it will be held on indoor hard courts at three venues in Innsbruck, Austria, Madrid, Spain and Turin, Italy. Expanded to take place over 11 days, the ties will be contested in a best-of-three rubbers format and will be played on one day. There will be two singles followed by a doubles. Spain are the defending champions.

The Davis Cup is the premier international team competition in men’s tennis, lauched in 1963. The Fed Cup is the equivalent women’s tournament.

While many nations enter the Davis Cup each year only 16 countries qualify for the elite World Group and World Group I I each year. Teams from countries in the three zones (Americas, Asia/Oceania and Europe/Africa) are divided into groups and from a complex system of play-offs the elite 16 are selected.

The World Group dates for the 2018 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas are as follows:

World Group first round: 2-4 February
World Group quarterfinals: 6-8 April
World Group semifinals and play-offs: 14-16 September
World Group Final: 23-25 November

The Copa Libertadores, South America’s premier club competition, features 32 teams from all 10 CONMEBOL member associations battling to be crowned continental champions.

ICONMEBOL member associations include Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraquay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Teams from Argentina and Brazil are traditionally dominant in the tournament, sharing 45 of 61 titles between them since 1960.

Brazilian heavyweights Palmeiras are the defending champions after victory over rivals Santos in last season’s final to win the title for the second time.