MADRID, 9 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Poland, Spain’s rival, will not be able to count on its best tennis player, Iga Swiatek, for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals that will be hosted by the Estadio de la Cartuja in Seville between November 7 and 12, while Canada, the other The group’s team will be led by Leylah Fernandez.
The current number two in the world will not be in the fight to win the old Federation Cup, which reduces the potential of the team captained by Dawid Celt and which will now be led by Magda Linette, number 23 in the WTA ranking. Next to her, Magdalena Frech, also in the ‘Top 100’ (70) and the more ‘unknown’ Katarzyna Kawa and Weronika Falkowska.
On the other hand, the third member of Group C of the competition, Canada, will not attend with an important player like Bianca Andreescu, and will have as number one Leylah Fernandez, its other tennis player among the best hundred (60), Rebecca Marino, Eugenie Bouchard, who became number five in the world in 2014, Marina Stakusic and Gabriela Dabrowski complete the team captained by Heidi El Tabakh.
In addition to the absence of Iga Swiatek and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, number one in the world but whose country cannot compete due to the invasion of Ukraine, spectators at La Cartuja will not be able to enjoy the Americans Coco Gauff, three in the world and current US Open champion, and Jessica Pegula, fourth in the ranking, who undermine the power of the Americans, led by Madison Keys (11). There will be the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (5), the Czechs Marketa Vondrousova, Wimbledon champion (8), and Karolina Muchova (9), and the French Carolina Garcia (10).
“The list of selected players is spectacular and we have many
I look forward to receiving them and seeing them play next month in Seville. Competing for your country is the greatest honor for any tennis player, and the fact that so many of the best tennis players in the world are going to do so shows what this competition means. Tickets for this great event are now on sale and we are going to see great tennis. I encourage all fans not to run out of them and buy them now,” said the Spanish Conchita Martínez, director of these BJKC Finals.