Wednesday, January 29, 2014

USA Fed Cup team announced

Madison Keys, Alison Riske, Christina McHale, and Lauren Davis will face defending champion team Italy February 8 and 9 in Cleveland in the season's opening World Group Fed Cup tie. Playing for Italy will be Karin Knapp, Camila Giorgi, Nastassja Burnett, and Alice Matteucci.

Both Serena Williams and Sloane Stephens are injured, and the usual members of the Italian team have asked for a rest from Fed Cup.

Here are the other World Group teams:

Spain vs. Czech Republic:

Spain
Carla Suarez Navarro
Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor
Silvia Soler-Espinosa
Lara Arruabarrena

Czech Republic
Petra Kvitova
Lucie Safarova
Klara Zakopalova
Andrea Hlavackova


Slovak Republic vs. Germany

Slovak Republic
Dominika Cibulkova
Daniela Hantuchova
Magdalena Rynbarkova
Jana Cepelova

Germany
Angelique Kerber
Sabine Lisicki
Andrea Petkovic
Julia Goerges


Australia vs. Russia

Australia
Samantha Stosur
Casey Dellacqua
Ashleigh Barty
Storm Sanders

Russia
Victoria Kan
Irina Khromacheva
Valeria Solovyeva
Veronika Kudermatova

5 comments:

Todd.Spiker said...

Hmmm, nice to see that all the problems with the Russian Fed Cup team have now been cleared up. :\

So many first-timers in the ITA/USA tie!

Diane said...

I'm reallly looking forward to this Fed Cup. Lots of new or "newish" players. Fed Cup brings out the best in them. But where is Panova?!

Is there going to be another Fed Cup live U.S. blackout? If there is, I'll be really angry. Last year, they didn't even tell us and I bought a pass, then had to ask for a refund. what the hell kind of agreement blacks out U.S. viewers--or any viewers--anyway?

Diane said...

I saw on the Fed Cup TV site that live streaming is again available worldwide. I hope that's really the case. Sent a letter to ITF.

Todd.Spiker said...

Speaking of TV coverage, I see that Tennis Channel is airing a huge block of programming on most days this week called "Center Court" that, from what I saw today, looks like it can move around to various live matches in different tournaments, along with studio commentary in between with TC personnel.

Is this new? I don't remember it before. It seems like a very good idea.

Diane said...

Yes, Center Court is a whole new concept and looks very good so far.