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the addict


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Great Britain play Sweden to determine who goes through to the 2024 Group Stages and who gets relegated to World Group 1.

Play starts on Saturday 11/11/2023 at 2pm - and tickets are sold out for that day.

Great Britains current ranking is 14 whilst Sweden's is 28

The GB team is Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage, Heather Watson, Harriet Dart and Maia Lumsden.

The Swedish Team (with current singles and doubles rankings as at 06/11/2023) is

Rebecca Peterson (WR103/1357)

Mirjam Bjorklund (WR163/UNR)

Kajsa Rinaldo Persson (WR372/538)

Lisa Zaar (WR824/503)

Caijsa Hennemann (WR532/624)



-- Edited by the addict on Tuesday 7th of November 2023 09:41:43 AM



-- Edited by the addict on Friday 10th of November 2023 04:13:57 PM

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Neither Peterson or Bjorklund have played since the US Open so they'll be out of practise even if they haven't been injured.

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Bjorklund won the Ilkley Challenger in June, beating Navarro in the final. My take away was that she was talented and had a really attacking game, but it could go walkabout a bit; on a faster court, she got on top of Navarro but if this is slower, she may struggle. Mind you, she sounds like most of our team, tbh!!

She got engaged to Shapovalov in the summer as well, didn't she?

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Bjorklund did take Elise Mertens to a final-set tiebreak at the USO though, having come through qualifying.
Persson played at Glasgow - lost to Maia+ in the doubles and SNigur in the singles QF.
Zaar has recently won a W15 (playing with Henneman) and a W25 doubles title.

That's the best I can find at the moment of their recent achievements.

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Peterson posted yesterday
"A lil photo dump of what's been going on lately - starting to see the light in the end of the tunnel :)"
which doesn't sound like someone ready to return this weekend.

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And indeed Peterson is out. Sweden's team is now Mirjam Björklund, Caijsa Hennemann, Kajsa Rinaldo Persson and debutants Lisa Zaar and Bella Bergkvist Larsson.

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Lambda wrote:

And indeed Peterson is out. Sweden's team is now Mirjam Björklund, Caijsa Hennemann, Kajsa Rinaldo Persson and debutants Lisa Zaar and Bella Bergkvist Larsson.

 Bjorklund is quite capable of winning both her singles, but we should aim to win at least 1 against her and then all three other rubbers, should be a 4-1 win or better?



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With Peterson it may have been a bit of a contest though I would still have expected GB to win easily.

Without her I'd frankly be disappointed if we lost a set. I know this might seem a bit arrogant but we really should win this very easily, especially as it is a home tie.

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HarryGem wrote:

With Peterson it may have been a bit of a contest though I would still have expected GB to win easily.

Without her I'd frankly be disappointed if we lost a set. I know this might seem a bit arrogant but we really should win this very easily, especially as it is a home tie.

 Surely it depends if Katie stays fit and Jodie doesn't go into self-destruct mode?



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dodrade wrote:
HarryGem wrote:

With Peterson it may have been a bit of a contest though I would still have expected GB to win easily.

Without her I'd frankly be disappointed if we lost a set. I know this might seem a bit arrogant but we really should win this very easily, especially as it is a home tie.

 Surely it depends if Katie stays fit and Jodie doesn't go into self-destruct mode?

 You'd hope that Annie would be able to talk Jodie out of any on-court tantrums.



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According to James Gray on Twitter, Bjorklund has also withdrawn. Would make things somewhat more straightforward if true (at least in theory!).

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Yikes. Poor Sweden. At least it's not at home for them. At this rate Larsson would be better coming off the captain's bench. She can still hit a good ball.

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It is true, confirmed by the Swedish fed. She has had a foot injury since the USO.

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The shcedule announced by the LTA:

Jodie Burrage Rinaldo Persson
Katie Boulter Caijsa Hennemann
Katie Boulter Rinaldo Persson
Jodie Burrage Hennemann
Heather Watson & Harriet Dart Zaar & Bergkvist Larsson


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Got to fancy this then!

By the way - the thread title rather appropriately calls this the payoffs instead of play offs! Maybe some decent foresight when it was posted !

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