Spain, in the same group in the United States and Slovakia

The Spanish workforce will compete along with these of the United States, and Slovakia in Group C of the Ultimate Part of the Federation Cup, which will probably be held in Budapest, from April 14 to 19.

Thus it has been mounted in the raffle held at the Museum of Arts in Budapest.

U.S, Champion on 18 events, the one who has received the most occasions, comes from reaching his classification towards Latvia, and might depend on his new star Coco Gauff, and the current winner of the Australian Open, Sofia Kenin. The presence of Serena Williams, in a match that takes place on land, at the Laszlo Papp Budapestt Sport Area, could be in doubt.

Spain He reaches this remaining section of a contest he has received 5 occasions. His victory towards Japan (3-1) has positioned the workforce that captain Anabel Medina in this final section in which he hopes to have Garbiñe Muguruza, current finalist in the Australian Open.

Slovakia He has solely received the Federation Cup as soon as, in 2002, and in the final qualifier, performed towards Brazil (they received 3-1) they used Dominika Cibulkova, Viktoria Kuzmova as the primary gamers.

In Group A, France, present champion of this competitors will probably be measured, with Russia and Hungary, particular visitor as host nation. Australia, finalist, will lead group B, together with Belarus and Belgium. The D is made up of the Czech Republic, particular visitor, Germany and Switzerland.

A workforce from every group will advance to the semifinals, with the winner of Group A and that of C crossing in that spherical, and these of B and D at the different crossing. Every tie will encompass two single video games and one double the place the variety of video games received will probably be taken into consideration for the classification, adopted by the variety of units received and lastly, if there have been a draw, the variety of video games received. The 2 finalist groups are assured of their presence in the subsequent version of the match, which will even be held in Budapest.

The choices that end between the third and the tenth place will dispute the qualification section of subsequent yr. Eighteen million {dollars} (about 15.eight million euros) is the prize cash for the match. The champion set will win a verify for 3.2 million {dollars}.

The president of the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF), David Haggerty, He mentioned earlier than the draw that “it is a very thrilling yr” and added that the Hungarian capital has already hosted earlier tournaments, so he hopes the cup will probably be successful. The ITF introduced in June 2019 the change of format of the Federation Cup, which from 2020 to 2022 will probably be held in Budapest with the participation of 12 groups in the László Papp Budapest Sports activities Area. This new format determines that first a section will probably be performed with 4 teams of three groups every, adopted by semifinals with direct eliminations and a grand remaining.

The competitors of this and the subsequent two years will probably be performed in the same services, on two tracks on clay. The 18 million {dollars} in prizes will imply 12 million for the gamers and six for the nationwide labeled associations. Though the remaining will carry collectively a lot of the world's tennis expertise, a few of the world's main rackets have been neglected as a result of their nation has did not qualify.

Amongst which is not going to take part in this Ultimate Part are the Romanian Simona Halep, the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, the Canadian Bianca Andreescu, the Dutch Kiki Bertens, the Japanese Naomi Osaka or the British Johanna Konta.