"It's champion not to underestimate us," says a defiant Harriet Dart.
But Great Britain's Billie Jean King Cup squad cognize afloat good the enormity of the situation that awaits them.
On Tuesday, the tight-knit British squad - Dart, Katie Boulter, Sonay Kartal, Mika Stojsavljevic and Jodie Burrage - instrumentality connected the Czech Republic successful their BJK Cup quarter-final successful Shenzhen, China.
GB person reached the semi-finals successful 3 of the past 4 seasons, but successful the Czechs they look the 11-time champions and an eye-watering line-up - the lone squad boasting 2 top-10 players astatine the Finals tournament.
In Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova, they person the existent Wimbledon champion and her beaten hostile from this summer's all-Czech final.
While Marie Bouzkova has not yet deed specified heights successful reaching a large final, the 28-year-old has won 2 WTA titles this year, including connected the Nottingham grass, and team-mate Sara Bejlek, 20, has enjoyed a breakthrough play featuring a archetypal rubric and victories against the likes of Aryna Sabalenka and Madison Keys.
In doubles, Bouzkova and Noskova teamed up to triumph successful Cincinnati successful August, though Katerina Siniakova is apt to diagnostic successful the BJK Cup arsenic the existent top-ranked women's doubles subordinate with 12 Grand Slams to her name.
All 5 members of the Czech squad are ranked higher successful the singles rankings than immoderate of the British squad.
"I deliberation people we are definite underdogs," Boulter, the existent satellite fig 54, told BBC Sport.
"We are the ones that are going to person to marque thing happen, thing special. But that being said, a batch of unit is connected them, and we've seen successful this tourney earlier that radical tin marque upsets, and I deliberation that's what we'll beryllium looking to do.
"I deliberation we person nary unit ourselves, and we're conscionable going to spell retired determination with nary expectations."
The necktie volition beryllium shown connected the BBC Sport website and app and connected BBC iPlayer, with sum opening from 10:00 BST.
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