Billie Jean King Cup, it starts with Italy-France: Paolini challenges Cornet, then it’s up to Giorgi

The two national teams will compete for access to the November Finals. Garbin: “Our strength is the group. We are good together, on and off the pitch. The girls are expressing themselves at good levels ”

Tomorrow at 2 pm the match between Italy and France will begin for the preliminaries of the Billie Jean King Cup, the women’s tennis national tournament. We play a place at the November Finals, the format is as follows: four singles matches and, finally, double. It is played in Alghero and the match between Jasmine Paolini – number 48 in the WTA ranking – and Alize Cornet, 34th in the ranking, will inaugurate the program. Then it will be the turn of Camila Giorgi (the Italian with the best ranking with her 30th position) against Ocean Dodin, number 96.

Saturday’s program

Saturday will take the field at 12 with the two crossed singles: Giorgi against Cornet and Paolini against Dodin, followed by the doubles match starring Lucia Bronzetti and Martina Trevisan, against Cornet and Kristina Mladenovic. On the eve of the appointment, Tathiana Garbin, captain of our national team, spoke: “The girls are fine, I am enthusiastic about all the conditions we have verified in these days of training here in Alghero: the pitch, the surface, the balls, the ‘atmosphere. Everything is optimal “.

France

“Our strength is the group. We are good together, on and off the pitch. The girls are expressing themselves at good levels and above all our first singles, Paolini and Giorgi are in good condition ”, continued Garbin. Then a look at the opponents: “We know their value and in particular Cornet has had an excellent start to the season: she is a tough nut to crack in this competition”. Eight times out of eleven, Italy has lost against France: the last Azzurri success dates back to 2009, when the team was made up of Francesca Schiavone, Flavia Pennetta, Roberta Vinci and Sara Errani.

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