Fed Cup 2018 - Europe/Africa Zone Group 1 - Tallinn, Estonia (7-11 Feb)

the addict · Tennis legend

Fed Cup 2018 - Europe/Africa Zone Group 1 - Tallinn, Estonia (7-11 Feb)

vohor · Grand Slam Champion

Congratulations Team GBR :D
Fingers crossed for a home tie next, much overdue....

Mervatron2 · Challenger qualifying

Great to see them through. Hoping for a home tie

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

That's the first Fed cup tie I've seen on TV, and I didn't realise that it was such a one man and his dog affair. Is that normal? I've seen bigger 'crowds' at my local $10ks.

blob · All-time great

Helen40 wrote:
That's the first Fed cup tie I've seen on TV, and I didn't realise that it was such a one man and his dog affair. Is that normal? I've seen bigger 'crowds' at my local $10ks.

I think part of that was that we were the very last action of the week, Estonia had already played, everyone had gone after that.
So, the only people likely to still be attending were those in Talinn interested in braving the perishing cold on a Saturday afternoon to watch the random countries of Hungary and GB play each other, and wher there wasn't a trophy to be won, just the vague naotion that these countries qualify for a chance to do something else somewhere else, later, and with the prospect of two matches with over 150 ranking places between each of them, and unlikely, to the uninitiated, to be terribly competitive.

But, the man in the hat is far better placed to comment about the relative normalcy of such occurrences.

Michael D · All-time great

Helen40 wrote:
That's the first Fed cup tie I've seen on TV, and I didn't realise that it was such a one man and his dog affair. Is that normal? I've seen bigger 'crowds' at my local $10ks.

This is another reason Judy Murray was so frustrated with the format and the fact that the Fed Cup team could never experience the type of support the Davis Cup men get when playing at home - and even when away, still play in stadiums that are full of atmosphere, as just happened in Spain.

JonH · All-time great

Other teams in the playoffs draw with Gb are Japan, Paraguay, Latvia and Ukraine with Canada most likely to join us and then loser of Russia and Slovakia and Spain v Italy.

skibbarriz · Strong Club Player

Which invites the question of which country to hope for. But hard to answer without knowing if and how their line-ups will change for a play-off tie.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Paraguay
84 - Cepede Royg
366 - Gonzalez
514 - Giangreco Campiz
Japan
51 - Osaka
90 - Hibino
102 - Nara
Latvia
6 - Ostapenko
15 - Sevastova
274 - Marcinkevica
Ukraine
3 - Svitolina
40 - Tsurenko
65 - Kozlova
Canada
116 - Bouchard
123 - Abanda
138 - Zhao
Russia
19 - Kuznetsova
22 -Pavlyunchenkova
23 -Vesnina
Slovakia
18 - Rybarikova
30 - Cibulkova
114 - Cepwlova
Spain
4 - Murguruza
29 -Suarez Navarro
82 - Arruabarrena
Italy
61 - Giorgi
93 - Schiavone
142 - Errani

skibbarriz · Strong Club Player

Current Russia team:

094 - Vikhlyantseva
150 - Kalinskaya
200 - Potapova
238 - Kudermetova

Lock in this Russian team and we'd fancy our chances. But not against the team Paulisi posted.

the addict · Tennis legend

Slovakia and Italy win,leaving russia and SPain in the playoffs.
Home against Canada looks to be the best draw !

LordBrownof · Futures level

skibbarriz wrote:
Current Russia team:

094 - Vikhlyantseva
150 - Kalinskaya
200 - Potapova
238 - Kudermetova

Lock in this Russian team and we'd fancy our chances. But not against the team Paulisi posted.

And that's without Sharapova.

JonH · All-time great

Russia and Spain are the two losers and join the mottly crew in the play offs.

Presumably the draw is later this week?

the addict · Tennis legend

I think I read that it is 10am GMT on Tuesday

PaulM · Tennis legend

Russia and Spain will strengthen their teams to avoid relegation I'm fairly sure