This is not a time of hypocrisy, we have to say we have a chance, we have to move on from Euro-Africa Group 1 in the qualifier for the renamed Billie Jean King Cup, which starts on Monday in Antalya
– Csaba Babos, the federal captain of the Hungarian women’s national team, started the press conference on Wednesday with this.
Led by a routine expert, Anna Bondár (73rd in the world rankings), Panna Udvardy (84th), Dalma Gálfi (97th), Réka Jani (138th) and Tímea Babos (262nd) represent our colors and the captain’s optimism in the numbers It is also supported: out of the opponents in Antalya, only Hungary has a top 100 player, almost three. (Two Estonian stars, Anett Kontaveit, 6th and Kaia Kanepi, 57th, did not name it, as did Danish Clara Tauson, 38th.)
Hungarian ladies gather from four corners of the world on the Turkish Riviera: Anna Bondár from Charleston, USA, Panna Udvardy and Réka Jani from Bogota, Colombia, Dalma Gálfi from Portugal, and Tímea Babos from Pretoria, South Africa, for the qualifiers. Csaba Babos does not agree with the Jean King Cup, but that’s it…
In Antalya, Róbert Fekete will be Csaba Babos’s assistant and deputy, Andrea Temesvári, the legend of Hungarian women’s tennis, the former Fed Cup captain will be the mentor, Balázs Vaskó will be the conditioning trainer, and there will also be a physiotherapist with the team.
Ours will meet the Serbs for the first time on Monday, the game starts at ten in the morning and the conditions are not exactly ideal: there is a container toilet and a container office next to the tracks, meals are also in puritanical conditions, so this should not be confused with Wimbledon or Roland Garros.
Csaba Babos has not yet decided who will play the two singles and the pair due after a 30-minute break.
It all depends on who arrives from the American continent or Africa, how and when, how much jet lag, ”said the captain. “Is it not a problem for me to be a captain and a father at the same time?” Well, that’s at most a problem for the public. If I put Timi on the team, I’m not going to put it on because it’s my daughter, but because she deserves it. His current 262nd place in the world rankings is out of proportion to his real knowledge, it is the result of a lot of injuries. I have to say, he’s already in good physical shape, not quite mentally yet… I’m aware that if I put it in one and get knocked out, I get cold and hot, but we’re used to it.
The manager bitterly complained that her daughter, in her words, had not been able to do anything in the last dozen years that journalists or internet hussars had not been involved in, despite winning four Grand Slam tournaments in doubles and three world championships in this genre as well.
Csaba Babos also talked about how hard it is for his daughter to get used to smaller races lately, not to be fooled, no limousine than before, when she has accumulated success, and it is also unusual for her to have to take a taxi at the airport upon arrival.
Everyone envies us that Timi is a billionaire, though no, we’ve been slowly spending two years now, living up on the money we’ve earned before. Unfortunately, the frog is still on the doubles world rankings now, it will be hard work to catch up, but we will not give up
Said Csaba Babos, who is not only his father, but also the coach of his daughter.
By the way, coaches… We learned that it is not cheap to have a fun coach.
The monthly fee of a listed professional is about 20 thousand euros or dollars, almost all of which – of course the player pays for it – the cost of the competition is 50 million forints a year, as the coach’s accommodation and full board are covered by the tennis player, and even ten percent also belongs to the trainer.
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Finally, Babos emphasized that the possible good performance of the team would be a serious driving force for young Hungarian tennis players.
(Cover photo: Tímea Babos tennis player and Csaba Babos, the athlete’s coach and father on July 27, 2015. Photo: Zoltán Máthé / MTI)
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