FED cup

Salmon · Tennis legend

RE: FED cup

tennisbrain · Club Coach

well unlucky for the girls!!
but what happens now do they not play again for another year or drop down a group exc.????????
hopefully next year it will be alot different with experience cavaday and stoop crowding the field

Salmon · Tennis legend

Bulgaria will be the one to get relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group II. We'll be where we are.

I agree with you there, Stoop will improve a lot and Naomi will be much more matured as a player.

imoen · Admin: Moderator+Tennis Legend

Presumably that means it won't be in Bulgaria next year!

Salmon · Tennis legend

Maybe Britain?

Sheddie · administrator

The Panda Bear wrote:

Paszek is hardly modelling material.

And Paszek definitely has a lot of power. Nowhere near top 5 players now, but give her till the end of the year and she'll get there. I personally think that she can beat top 10 players when she's having a good day, but I can't prove it till she does.

true...I somehow got her mixed up with a pic of Julia Goerges which was on my computer at that time

But Arks, these statements are ridiculous, she's nowhere near beating top 20 players regularly at the moment and she will be nowhere near beating top 10 players by the end of the year....I can't see her beating any of those girls atm, she needs to get a lot fitter and develop more nous in her game.

Look at the stats: she had a great win over Srebotnik in Dubai which was v impressive as Srebotnik's ranked 21 and she also hammered Bremond (no 37) at the Aussie Open, but against Zvonereva and Li who are just inside top 20 she got hammered. I think she will beat top 10 players in the future, obviously but it will take a while to develop her game enough to beat players at that level ...there's a huge gulf between the top 16-20 and players ranked 25-50....I do think Paszek will be top 30 by the end of the year

Sheddie · administrator

The Panda Bear wrote:

Maybe Britain?

Hopefully

But I doubt it

I dunno why we didn't apply this year...it's been in Bulgaria for the last few years, ever since I started following the GB Fed Cup team...would be surprised if it isn't the same next year

We badly need some kind country to come along and get it off the clay !

I hope that it'll be Cavaday and Stoop next year, that could be a problem though if it's still on clay because that's by far Stoop's worst surface

Salmon · Tennis legend

Of course she won't do it every single match - she turned 16 just last December.

I don't know about a ranking because she won't play much more this year, but get ready for some great scalps in the next few months.

Sheddie · administrator

ok, well then maybe top 30 in next couple of years.

re the scalps: hmm we'll see, I wait to be convinced

Salmon · Tennis legend

No, top 30 by next March.

Maybe even this year.

Salmon · Tennis legend

Don't think that Bulgaria will host it as they got the chop.

Sheddie · administrator

why did Bulgaria get the chop ?

How can she do it this year if she's not going to play many more WTAs and quite a bit to defend in the autumn

Salmon · Tennis legend

They got relegated.

Because she's awesome.

-- Edited by The Panda Bear at 12:39, 2007-04-21

Sheddie · administrator

oh of course, lets hope the LTA bid for it and put it on fast grass

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

The Panda Bear wrote:

They got relegated.

Because she's awesome.

-- Edited by The Panda Bear at 12:39, 2007-04-21

No they didn't, and they can still host it even if they do get relegated.