The playoff match will take place on November 15-16 in McKinney, America.
The first racket of Ukraine Marta Kostyuk will not play for the national team against Austria in the playoffs Billie Jean King Cup. Instead of Martha, she joined the team Anastasia Lopata.
19-year-old Anastasia won her first trophy at the professional level at the end of October, winning the ITF tournament in Hilton Head, America. Lopata is ranked 582nd in the new WTA rankings.
Let us remind you that Lesya Tsurenko, Katarina Zavatskaya, Anastasia Soboleva and Nadezhda Kichenok will also play for the blue-yellows. The captain of the Ukrainian team is Ilya Marchenko.
The matches will take place on the hard surface of The Courts in McKinney, Texas, USA. The confrontation between Ukraine and Austria will take place on November 16 and 17. The winner of this meeting will qualify to compete in the 2025 World Finals qualification.
For the third year in a row, Ukraine failed to make it to the finals of the Billie Jean King Cup. In 2022, our tennis players lost to the US team, and in 2023 – to the Czech national team. In August 2024, the Ukrainians lost to Romania (2:3), losing their lead of two winning games.
Source: Sportarena
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