A Spain-Kazakhstan with seven foreign-born players

The Russian men’s and women’s teams will not be able to defend the titles won in Davis Cup and the Bille Jean King Cup because there is a veto on them for invading the Ukraine. At the individual level, they were able to play on the circuit without a flag, except for Wimbledon and the British ATP and WTA tournaments, which denied them entry.

Paradoxically, Wimbledon attended the victory of a Russian in his ‘Cathedral’. Elena Rybakina, 23 years old, he surprisingly reigns on the grass in London. This is part of Kazakhstan’s migration policy, which spares no resources to attract some talent from the prolific Russian youth academy.

Rybakina was born in Moscow, like Spain’s other two main rivals today, Yulia Putintseva and the doubles Anna Danielina. yes he is kazakh Zhibek Kulambayeva. In men it happens both in Alexander Bublik, Dmitry Popko or Mikhail Kukushkin.

It is surprising that in Spain four of its players could choose another country because they were born in other territories. Everything except the grenadine Nuria Parrizas. Tempted by the American USTA Paula Badosa by being born in New York, where his parents worked in the world of fashion. His family is from Begur, a town on the Costa Brava in Girona.

In the same place, in Palafrugell, he was also raised and trained from an early age Aliona Bolsova, where his parents, emigrants from Moldova, lived. Also born in Chisinau, Moldovan captain, Cristina Bucsa, a Cantabrian since childhood.

Rebecca Masarova He won the junior Roland Garros as a Swiss. He was born in Basel, the hometown of Roger Federer, a town he made a match for Barcelona. His father is Slovakian and his mother is Spanish. And finally decided to play as Spanish.

The opposite is the case of Jill Techmanborn in Barcelona, ​​​​​​where he is based, but also decided to compete because of his Swiss family roots.