The Billie Jean King Cup Finals will start in Malaga this week in a better partnership with the Davis Cup and with some added consideration given to the victims of the lethal floods that just lately devastated jap Spain.
Will probably be the primary time that the ladies’s group match will happen on the similar venue because the Davis Cup and with overlapping dates. And for the second yr in a row, it can provide equal prize cash to the lads’s competitors.
The ladies’s occasion begins two weeks after a robust storm precipitated flash floods that killed greater than 200 folks within the Valencia area east of Malaga.
The Worldwide Tennis Federation introduced a donation to the Spanish Crimson Cross to assist aid and restoration efforts within the area, and Spanish participant Paula Badosa stated she’s going to donate half of her prize cash to assist the victims.
“I am enthusiastic about representing my nation, however I will not neglect about what’s actually necessary in these moments,” Badosa stated on a social media put up.
Spain takes on Iga Swiatek’s Poland on the competitors’s first day on Tuesday, led by Badosa not lengthy after the previous second-ranked participant thought of retiring whereas coping with a power again harm.
“I believe it was a little bit of a rollercoaster this yr,” Badosa stated. “I am actually pleased with myself, how I overcame these powerful conditions and likewise how I completed the season. I completed the yr in a really excessive degree. I am actually blissful, as there was one level of the season the place I used to be very far-off from the extent I wished to be.”
On Wednesday, america will tackle Slovakia with Ashlyn Krueger changing Jessica Pegula in Lindsay Davenport’s group, which additionally contains Danielle Collins, Caroline Dolehide, Peyton Stearns and Taylor Townsend.
Additionally on Wednesday, Japan – with out Naomi Osaka – performs towards Romania, whereas on Thursday it is Germany towards Britain. Defending champion Canada, Australia, Italy and the Czech Republic wait to tackle the winners of these earlier matchups.
Every matchup shall be a best-of-three sequence with two singles matches and one doubles match.
Beforehand often called Fed Cup, the competitors was rebranded in 2020 to align with former tennis star Billie Jean King.
It can finish Nov. 20, whereas the Davis Cup shall be performed Nov. 19-24, with all matches going down on the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena in Malaga.