The Australia Billie Jean King Cup team represents Australia in international women's tennis and is directed by Tennis Australia. The team played in the first ever tournament in 1963, and is one of four teams that has taken part in every single edition since. The Australian national team is one of the most successful in world tennis. They are seven-time world champions and have reached a total of eighteen finals, second highest as Runners-up all-time behind United States. Between 1963 and 1980, the Australian team played in every single final except for three. However, in recent times the Australian team has had a comparative lack of success, only appearing in the World Group five times between 1995 and 2010, and never going beyond the first round. However, the team has experienced a resurgence in recent times, accumulating a 15–6 win–loss record since 2005 and returning to the World Group in 2011 and 2013. Samantha Stosur holds the record for most singles wins by an Australian in Fed Cup, while Wendy Turnbull holds the record for most doubles wins, most overall tie wins, and most ties participated in. Alicia Molik is the current captain and has held that position since 2013. Currently, the team is No. 1 in the ITF rankings, their highest-ever rank since the inception of the rankings in 2002. Current team History Players Forty-four players have represented Fed Cup for Australia since its inception in 1963. Wendy Turnbull holds the record for the most ties played, having appeared in forty-five ties during her eleven-year Fed Cup career. Rennae Stubbs is second, with forty-one ties, although she had by far competed for more years than anyone else (with seventeen) before her retirement after the team's 2011 tie against Italy. Alicia Molik, the current captain, is tenth, having played in twenty-two ties, one less than the highest active player Samantha Stosur. Turnbull took the record for most ties in 1986, taking the record from current third Dianne Balestrat. Balestrat was also the youngest person to reach twenty ties, at 23 years old. Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong Cawley share the record of people to reach twenty ties to have the highest winning percentage, with 35–5 or 0.875%. Stosur holds the record for most Australia Fed Cup singles wins. She had her first win in 2004 against Napaporn Tongsalee, and went on to take the record from Balestrat nine years later