Tennis: Garbin, France strong but Italy young and motivated

(ANSA) – CAGLIARI, 01 APR – “France has three former top 10 players, with great experience, but we are a young team, full of enthusiasm, a very united group that is growing well”. Thus the captain of Italy women’s tennis, Tathiana Garbin, in the press conference to present the challenge scheduled in Alghero on 15 and 16 April, valid for the preliminary round of the Billie Jean King Cup 2022.

“A good group is being created – said Garbin – the girls also meet outside the national team, during tournaments, we know that it is not easy for an individual sport to create a certain type of feeling. We are confident and positive for this challenge. . I don’t want to give too many clues to the opponents, so let’s leave a veil of mystery on the choices “.

Garbin has called up five players: Camila Giorgi (number 30 Wta), Jasmine Paolini (47), Lucia Bronzetti (85), Martina Trevisan (88), Elisabetta Cocciaretto (239).

It will be played on the green set of the Alghero Tennis Club, with a capacity of 2553 seats. Friday 15, from 2 pm, the first two singles. Saturday, from 12, the other two singles and then the double. “With the Miami tournament the season ended on the fast – said the captain blue – and in agreement with the players I chose this type of surface, considering it the most suitable choice from a technical and tactical point of view for this challenge”.

It will be the twelfth time, between men and women, that the Italy of tennis plays in Sardinia, where Pennetta and her teammates won the Fed Cup against Russia in 2013 and where in 1990 an extraordinary Canè, beating Wilander, gave Italy a historic victory against Sweden. “In 11 challenges we have never lost – said the president of the Federation, Angelo Binaghi from Cagliari – Sardinia brings luck and we hope to confirm this tradition, even if it will be a difficult challenge, because France is very strong, with two players now. further back in the standings but that were 4 and 11 in the world “. (HANDLE).

Source: Ansa

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