Paula Badosawho this week will make her Billie Jean King Cup debut at the Glasgow finals, He assured that for him “it is a motivation to stop playing like Paula Badosa and do it as part of the Spanish team”.
“It’s my first time and I’m very motivated. From the first moment I told Anabel Medina -captain- that, if she comes, it will be to give one hundred percent and try to win the title,” he said at a press conference in the Scottish capital.
“It is a very tough competition, but the essence of the Spanish team is competitiveness and fighting. We can’t lose that. If we can keep it, we have options”, highlighted the twelfth player in the world, who said that he “also learns” from his teammates, ranked lower in the ranking but with more experience in the Cup.
“I have been trying for a long time to get to the Cup at the same time, but it was not possible and now I am here with a lot of desire“, he claimed.
Kazakhstan, Spain’s first opponents next Wednesday, count in their ranks reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, an opponent that Badosa expects to be “a very difficult match, because she is very aggressive.”
“But I like these kinds of matches because they are challenging,” said the Spaniard, who has beaten Rybakina in three of their four meetings.
Together with Badosa, they form the Spanish team the debutante too Cristina Bucca -who pointed out that he felt “excited and grateful to be in a great team”-, Nuria Parrizas, Aliona Boisova and Rebeka Masarovaled by Anabel Medina.
Source: La Verdad
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