sentences:  1 ranking in November 2003.However, the French team has experienced a relative decline in recent times, falling from the highest level of competition, the World Group, for the first time since initiation in 2011 and falling out of the ITF Top 15 the following year.However, France built their way back up to the World Group in the 2014 Fed Cup, and in 2016, the team reached their first final since 2005.