2023-11-07 08:58:18
Sevilla i Cancunseparated by 7,819 kilometers and more than 14 hours of transoceanic travel, host two of the most important tournaments of the season in women’s tennis, without enough time for the players to rest and acclimatize. Not even 12 hours will be between the Finals of the WTA and the beginning of the Billie Jean King Cup by teams in the stadium of The Charterhouse.
And incongruent calendar which will prevent you from seeing the best tennis players in the world. Of the first 10 of the circuit, they will only be in Seville, Elena Rybakina (4), with the Kazakhstan i Marketa Vondrousova (6) i Barbora Krejcikova (10), with the Czech Republicwho have arrived from Cancun without much time to acclimatize to a tournament that brings together the 12 best teams in the world.
Australia i Slovenia will open this Tuesday (10.00 a.m.) the first round of the Billie Jean King Cup a few hours after the Polish one yesterday Iga Wsiatek (2) and the American Jessica Pegula (5) contested the final of the Women’s Masters with the title and the number 1 of the season at stake.
The discharge of Swiatekalready announced months ago by the Pole after learning of the demanding schedule, will benefit the Spanish team that is in group 3, together with Poland, and that will debut tomorrow (4:00 p.m., TVE and Movistar+) against Canada.
Yes, there will be Paula Badosa (world number 2), who has not played since last June Wimbledon, when he retired in the second round with a back injury. The Girona has decided to return to the tracks due to the need to secure a possible Olympic place in the Paris Olympic Games next year, although his form is an unknown.
“I feel good, without pain and eager to play. Knowing that this tournament was played in Spain was an extra motivation» to speed up “recovery”, emphasized the 25-year-old tennis player from Begur in the press conference held by the Spanish team in Seville. Badosa admitted that he has “missed tennis, although it is not everything in life”. The stoppage, he says, has served him to “learn many things, among them, to be patient”.
He “camp factor is an extra motivation”he emphasized Anabel MedinaSpanish captain, faced with the options to fight for a title won on five occasions (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1998), at the time ofArantxa Sánchez i Conchita Martinez, now director of the tournament in Seville. Next to Badosa (now 67 in the world) they will form the Spanish team Sarah Smiles (51), Rebeka Masarova (65), Cristina Bucsa (82) and the white Marina Bassols (112).
If Sevilla has saved the organization of the Billie Jean King Cup against the clock, the same has not happened with the Finals WTA which have been played on a track set up on one of Quintana Rosego’s golf courses, unfinished four days before the start of the tournament. “It’s disrespectful”complained Aryna Sabalenka (world number 1), while the workers were finishing the works and the players could only train 45 minutes a day in the center.
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