Tennis players of the Russian national team reached the semifinals of the Federation Cup

The tennis players of the Russian national team reached the semifinals of the Federation Cup of the Federation Cup, having won on the eve of the Olympic Sports complex of the Olympic victory over the France team with a score of 3-2. It is curious that this is only the fourth case in the history of the tournament, when the countries inferior to 0-2 eventually reached the next round.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Svetlana Kuznetsova acted as the saviors of Russia. At first they won their single fights - Pavlyuchenkova at Alisa Korne, Kuznetsova - Virzhini rang out - and then, united in a couple, July Kuen outplayed with the same root - 7: 6, 6: 0. The pair game turned out to be decisive.

“We decided that Kuznetsova paired would replace Dinar Safina, because Svetlana spent a good match today,” the captain of our team Shamil Tarpishchev commented on the replacement. “But, if necessary, Dinar was also ready and could go to the court. As for the replacement of Sharapova, we did not have time to adapt after arrival. In the game of Maria, this is one of the main components.

In the semifinals of the Russian national team, it will be at home to play against the Italian team, which surpassed Australian - 4-1. The match will be held on April 16-17. The second ticket to the final will be played by the national teams of Belgium and the Czech Republic, which turned out to be stronger than the Americans (4-1) and the Slovak (3-2), respectively.