With some of the main women’s tennis rackets as references for each team, the Billie Jean King Cup qualifying playoffs account for nine vacancies which forms the poster of the competition that Switzerland conquered last year.
Eighteen national teams make up the nine qualifiers that will face off on Friday and Saturday with the aim of the final stage being held next November, at a venue yet to be determined, with the host team, the champion, the Swiss team, and the finalist, Australia.
The dozen teams competing in the tournament’s 2023 Finals will be divided into four groups of three teams. The winner of each of them will qualify for the semifinals. The winners will play in the final.
however, the teams that lose in the playoffs of this weekend’s classification which will be played in the best of five matches -four singles and one doubles- they have to play a tie against the winners of Group I and some from Group II who are again looking to make it to the finals.
Spain aims to secure a third qualification for the finals against Mexico in Puente Romano. Spain only faced Mexico once. It was in 1981 and they won 2-1.
The team led by Anabel Medina is without Paula Badosa. Her team consists of Nuria Párrizas, Sara Sorribes, Rebeka Masaroba, Marina Bassols and Aliona Bolsova.
Spain, six-time champions of the competition, maintains a competitive team. Last year he was left at the gate of the semifinals. Mexico intends to reach the finals for the first time with a team made up of Fernando Contreras, Marcela Zacarías, Giuliana Olmos and Renata Zarazúa.
Five of the ten best players in the women’s rankings, nine of the top twenty, were part of Billie Jean King Cup duels of these days. The most notable absence, however, is world number one, Iga Swiatek, who will not play for Poland in their clash against Kazakhstan. Leading the Polish team is Magda Linette, nineteenth in the ranking along with Magdalena Frech, Weronkia Falkowska, Weronika Ewald and Alicja Rosolska.
Dawid Celt’s team went to Astana in one of the most balanced duels since Kazakhstan, host, is led by one of the tennis players of the best moment, Elena Rybakinaseventh in the world, last year’s Wimbledon champion and who this year has already conquered Indian Wells in addition to reaching the final of the Australian Open.
Rybakina and Yulia Putintseva guarantee the competitiveness of Yaroslava Shvedova’s team against Poland.
The United States has major rackets. Both Jessica Pegula, third in the WTA rankings, and Coco Gauff, sixth, are part of Kathy Rinaldi’s team that hosts Austria in Delray Beach. The North American team is seeking to reach the Finals for the third time.
The team with the most titles, eighteen, starts as favorite against Austriawith Julia Grabher being the only part in the leading road.
The Czech Republic has two members in the top twenty in women’s tennis. Without Petra Kvitova, tenth, the Czech team, the second with the most wins in the competition, will face its visit to Turkey in Antalya, to play against Ukraine.
Barbora Krejcikova, twelfth and Karolina Pliskova, seventeenth, encourage the Czech’s commitment against an opponent playing at home on neutral territory, with Marta Kostyuk, 38 WTA, along with Dayana Yastremska, Katarina Zavatska and Lyudmyla Kichenok to reach the Finals for the first time.
Great Britain and France face one of the most balanced duels of the qualifying phase. The French team has Caroline Garcia, fifth in the world, to end the spirit and competitiveness of the local team in the Coventry clash.
The British team was a semifinalist in the last edition with a team similar to this tie Harriet Dart, Katie Boulter, Heather Watson, Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls. None of them are in the top 100, but they bring out their potential when they play for their country.
France, three-time champion of the Billie Jean King Cup, forms the set of Julien Benneteau with Alize Cornet, 70 in the ranking with Clara Burel and Kristina Mladenovic.
Beatriz Haddad Maia, fourteenth in the world women’s tennis, leads Brazil visit to the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart. The South American team is looking to reach the Finals for the first time. This is the second time he has played in the qualifying phase. The quarterfinals is his cap in this event.
Laura Pigossi, Carolina Alves and Ingrid Gamarra complete the Brazilian cast in front of Germany who want to reach the final stage for the second time. Jule Niemeier, Tatjana Maria and Anna Lena Friedsman are the base of the team. All three are in the top 100. Laura Siegemund is 105.
The twentieth tennis player in the WTA ranking Martina Trevisan was the main player from Italy to visit Slovakia. The transalpine team aims to achieve its goal for the second year in a row, although it did not advance from the group stage. Camila Giorgi, Elisabetta Cocciaretto Jasmine Paolini and Lucia Bronzetti completed the selection for the visit to Slovakia in Bratislava.
Leylah Fernandez leads the Canadian team against Belgium. The North Americans, including Rebecca Marino and Gabriela Dabrowski, are aiming for the final stage for the third time. last year he stayed at the gate of the semifinals. Belgium will also want the goal for the third time at the Vancover event with Ysaline Bonaventure and Greet Minnen and veterans Yanina Wickmayer and Kirsten Flipkens as assets.
The qualifying rounds will be completed with the match between Slovenia and Romania in Koper. The local team, led by Tamara Zidansek, is aiming for the finals for the first time. Also Romania who played in the previous round three times without success. Ana Bogdan, Jaqueline Adina Cristian Irina Maria Bara Anca Alexia Todoni and Moniuca Nuculescu make up her team.
Source: La Verdad
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