MADRID, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish women’s team will make its debut this Wednesday in the Finals of the Billie Jean King Cup that take place in Glasgow (Scotland) in search of adding a first key victory against Kazakhstan and clinging to the leadership that debutant Paula Badosa can give it.
The team captained by Anabel Medina is once again among those who will fight for the old Federation Cup, a success that has eluded national tennis for 24 years when, led by Arancha Sánchez-Vicario and Conchita Martínez, they won their fifth title. 14 years ago, she played her last final, lost to Russia, with Torrentina still on the court.
“We have a lot of passion and we are very competitive, we compete to win. Our focus is to give our best version to win the title. There are many tough teams, it will be difficult, but we have to be ambitious and go for the title, respecting the opponents” , valued the captain before the media.
Now, Spain is going with the hope of at least getting to the final fight and overcoming a ’round robin’ that eluded them last year at the O2 Arena in Prague when they were unable to beat a demanding group with the United States and Slovakia, in a presence marked by the absences at the last minute of its two best tennis players in the ranking at the time, Garbiñe Muguruza and Paola Badosa.
The Spanish-Venezuelan tennis player will not be in Glasgow either, but the Catalan will be, who will attend as number one of the team and wanting to reinforce her morale after a very complicated season, especially in the second half where she has barely been able to win.
“It is a motivation for me to stop playing a bit like Paula Badosa and represent Spain. I will give my best level, one hundred percent, to try to win the title,” warned the world thirteen at the press conference on Monday.
There will also be no other regular tennis player in the competition such as Sara Sorribes from Castellón, so the most normal thing will be for Granada-born Nuria Párrizas, who debuted with the team in the finals last year, to act as number two.
Cristina Bucsa, Rebeka Masarova and Aliona Bolsova complete Anabel Medina’s quintet that will begin its journey against its theoretical toughest rival, a Kazakhstan that already has a more competitive rhythm because it played and won Great Britain on Tuesday.
The kajazas arrive with their best team, led by Elena Rybakina, this year’s Wimbledon champion and 22nd in the world ranking, and Yulia Putintseva, 51st in the world. Rybakina will measure forces against Badosa, who dominates the individual matches by 3-1, with victory this year in Stuttgart (Germany), while Párrizas, if she is chosen
