Siniaková and Vondroušová finally secured the tennis players’ victory against Poland – ČT sport – Czech Television

Karolína Muchová successfully opened the Group D duel with the Poles, lacking the apologetic world number one Iga Šwiteková, who twice won 6: 2 over Magdalena Frechová. In the singles, however, Linette equalized, beating Karolína Plíšková 6: 4, 6: 1. The double was decided, in which, in the absence of the injured Barbora Krejčíková, 23-year-old Vondroušová made his debut alongside world double Siniaková. The Czech couple won in 61 minutes.

The 11-time winners of the competition formerly known as the Fed Cup have a chance to advance to the semi-finals. They will challenge the US team for the only place of advancement, which also beat the Poles 2: 1 the day before. Muchová, last year’s Australian Open semifinalist, was the best player in the opening duel. In the first set, she took the serve of her two-year younger opponent her twice and took the lead in 32 minutes.

Frechová, who lost a three-set duel with American Danielle Collins on Wednesday, couldn’t resist even in the second set. The Czech has not lost his serve even once in the match and, thanks to two more breaks, he won the duel in an hour and fifteen minutes. He scored 22 winning balls in the match.

“I got into the game well and served reliably. I was happy with today’s performance. At first I was nervous, because it’s been a while since I last played for the national team. I started in double quests. year, but it’s already something. I’m happy to have shrugged off and to have scored the first point for the team, “said Muchová.

Plíšková could decide, but the former world number one could not manage the match against Linette. She lost the first set equal to the end, after losing the serve at 4: 5.

At the start of the second set, the 30-year-old native of Loun managed to “break” the 49th player in the world, but then lost six games in a row. Not even eight aces helped Pliskova, besides five double fouls, she made 33 unforced errors. She only lost the second of nine games against Linette.

“My opponent didn’t surprise me. My performance was rather worse. The first set wasn’t all bad. But I worked hard for every point and it suited her. I was cutting until I made a mistake. the score was balanced. As soon as I quit, my opponent beat me from behind. She played almost flawlessly, while I unfortunately didn’t hit any shots, “said Plíšková.

The Czechs took the second point by winning thanks to the double final. Siniaková and Vondroušová broke the serve to Polish opponents six times and won in an hour and a minute during their joint debut.

“I thought I would just like to play doubles and play with Kačka. We haven’t played together yet. But in the end it turned out that we went straight to the decisive match,” said Vondroušová. “However, I felt good from the start. I thought it would go well and we played really well,” added the Sokolov native. “I am happy that it went like this, because with a count with no advantage and a super tiebreak, anything can happen. We took the start, we got off to a great start and we remained even throughout the match,” Siniaková added.

Australian women are in the semi-finals of the BJ King Cup

The Australian tennis players were the first to secure a place in the semi-finals of the Billie Jean King Cup. In Glasgow’s elite team competition, after Slovakia, they faced Belgium and dominated group B. The British home women also dominated. they went further thanks to a regular 3: 0 victory over Spain in a balanced “céček”.

Australians Storm Sanders and Ajla Tomljanovic won the singles as in the first round, although the latter had to overturn the match against Elise Mertens and in the third set the Belgian lost against her by 0: 3. Unlike on Tuesday, team Sanders’ Australian female Samantha Stosur sealed the victory with a triumph in the doubles.

The British tennis players, who played without last year’s US Open champion Emma Raducanu, were flawless against the Spaniards after a 1-2 defeat to Kazakhstan. Both Heather Watson and Harriet Dart scored in the single, taking the scalp of Paula Badosa, and Alicia Barnett with Olivia Nicholls in the doubles sealed the 3-0 win that led the team to overtake.

In Group A, Canada also defeated Italy 3-0 and deprived their opponents of the opportunity to advance. Aligned with 2019 US Open winner Bianca Andreescu and last year’s New York Grand Slam finalist Leylah Fernandez, the North American team will face the Swiss in a head-to-head battle for advancement on Friday.