Chile defeats Ecuador and will play a place in the qualifiers of the Billie Jean King Cup

The national tennis players beat the host 3-0 in the final game of the American Zone I group stage. Tomorrow, they will face Brazil for one of two tickets to the playoffs.

Chile completed the initial task in American Zone I of the Billie Jean King Cup the old Federation Cup. The first objective of the cast led by Belén Ludueña was to move on to the phase , given the fact that local Paraguay and Ecuador featured very young teams with very low-ranking players. And although the group could not be won after the loss to Mexico in the debut, the national team managed to enter the duel for a place in the playoffs of the contest.

Today the national team had no problem following the procedure and beating the host team 3-0 in Salinas. In the first round, Bárbara Gatica (242nd) beat Valeska San Martín 6-1 and 6-0 (no ranking) while during the second encounter, Daniela Seguel (252nd) beat Charlotte Romer (1,033rd) 7-5 and 6-2. As, Gatica and Alexa Guarachi defeated Domenica González and Mell Reasco 6-1 and 6-3 structuring the final victory.

“Mission accomplished. We wanted to fight for the playoffs tomorrow and now we have the opportunity, so we will do everything we can to try to achieve this objective which is very important to us” voiced the Panther Séguel.

For the passage to the playoffs, Chile must defeat Brazil , one of the big favorites and which has Beatriz Haddad as the main player. If they win, the Gladiators will return to this instance after 26 years.

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Source: Latercera

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