The argentine national team women’s tennis prepares to face his pair of Brazil in the Playoffs of the Billie Jean King Cup (BJKC) that will be disputed in the city of Saint Paul los November 15 and 16. That’s why your captain, Mercedes Paz, next Sunday there will be an open practice for the selected team, in the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Clubbefore leaving for the neighboring country.
In the middle of planning, the leader had to call on her resources and make a last-minute modification, calling Melanie Krywojwho will represent the Albiceleste team for the first time in this competition.
The captain received the call from Lourdes Carlé (No. 95 in the women’s ranking), who had already confirmed that she would lead the team, to inform you that you were withdrawing from the call for this important series. The fact is that the player went on a tour on cement, which included the Valenciahe Las Vegas W60, Tampico and Meridain which she tried to collect the necessary points to keep her within the ranking cut to directly enter the first 2025 Grand Slamhe Australian Openthe goal of all tennis players. However, the results were not as expected and the GPS of his coaching staff asked to recalculate the path of his calendar, to search on the brick dust of Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires and Florianópolis what could not be done on the hard surface.
Carlé must face this last part of the year defending the points earned 12 months ago, which include the final he lost against the Brazilian Laura Pigossi in it Argentina Open and the semi-finals of Montevideo y Vaccariathis seems to be the main reason why he decided to stay to train on a slow court.
This way, Argentina will face the match without its two best rackets (Nadia Podoroska had already announced that her year was over), something that for Paz, with great realism, means giving “a sporting advantage” important to his rivals. However, he also considers that they have “good players, very hungry for victory” and they form a “competitive” team. As Jasmine Ortenziwhich comes with a very good year, recovering. And with a nice background, because last week it came to quarterfinals in Cali, where he beat Pigossi, the second Brazilian singles player.
The recently summoned Krywoj, born in Lobos 26 years ago, studies in the USA and, hand in hand with his coach Carlos Cobosseeks to make a foothold on the professional circuit. For now, his best production has been in doubles and it is the main reason for the call to join the team. “It is a reward for this moment in his career”Commented Mercedes Paz.
Despite the two notable absences, the captain considers that she is going with a team that has “Solana Sierra who is having a great year and playing well, Jazmín Ortenzi has also had a very good season, and Julia Riera “which has already become a fundamental base of this team.”
But we also have to look at what happens with the Brazilian team, which will have Beatriz Haddad Maia (17°), Laura Pigossi (130°), Carolina Meligeni Alves (310°), Ingrid Gamarra Martins (85° in doubles) and Luiza Fullana (574°).
The No. 1 of the hosts, Haddad Maiacomes from a season in which He fell back a few places in the rankings and retired due to injury in the Tokyo tournament. For his part, Pigossi did not have a great year either and fell at the beginning of the week against Jasmín Ortenzi in the first round of Cali.
At the Ginásio Ibirapuera, with capacity for more than 10 thousand spectatorsBrazilians and Argentines will seek to pass to the Qualifiers 2025on brick dust and indoors.
The winning team will advance to that event, which starting next year will change its format, to be played in the week of April 7, in seven different venues and in groups of three teams each. Each series will consist of three matches (two singles and one doubles) and the seven winning nations will advance to the November Finalswhere they will join the host country.
