Australia faces Slovakia on Sunday night time bidding to make the semifinals for the fourth time in 5 years, with captain Sam Stosur benefitting from a wealth of choice choices.
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“Clearly we’ve had some fantastic outcomes lately, making finals and semis and the like, however yearly it’s important to begin from scratch,” Stosur stated in a video name from Spain.
“You’ve obtained to do it over again from the identical start line as everybody else this time round.
“However, yeah, completely, plenty of religion and confidence in all our gamers that we now have right here. We’ve obtained 5 very high-quality tennis gamers to have the ability to decide from and put our greatest foot ahead on the courtroom each single time we get probability to get on the market.”
Flooding in Malaga in the course of the week has restricted Australia’s apply periods and clouded Stosur’s choice ideas.
“Look, it’s what it’s. Everybody was in the identical place. No one obtained to do something yesterday,” she stated.
“Clearly it’s not splendid, however I feel it flooding within the metropolis might be a bit extra necessary than having the ability to hit some tennis balls.”
The 2011 US Open champion has confidence in whomever takes the courtroom, as do the gamers themselves after resurgent campaigns in 2024 from Ajla Tomljanovic, Olivia Gadecki and Kimberly Birrell specifically.
Tomljanovic received a second WTA 125K title in September in Hong Kong earlier than Gadecki and Birrell each made their maiden tour-level finals in Guadalajara and Osaka respectively.
“I really feel like I’m in a very good house proper now with my sport,” Gadecki stated.
“I’ve performed a whole lot of tournaments, a whole lot of matches this yr, so to have the ability to end high 100 is an unbelievable achievement and I’m actually trying ahead to competing this week.
“I’m fairly eager to singles and doubles.”
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As is Tomljanovic.
“It’s good,” stated the three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist. “Everybody right here places their hand up for something actually. I feel that’s a superb factor for a captain to have that.
“Everybody desires to play.”
Fourth-seeded Australia or Slovakia will meet both defending champions Canada or Nice Britain within the semifinals.
Emma Raducanu and Katie Boulter helped the Brits to a 2-0 victory over Germany on Saturday after Iga Swiatek led Poland to a 2-0 win over Spain.
Swiatek once more starred within the quarters as Poland subsequently beat Czechia 2-1 to achieve the final 4, the place they’ll meet Italy, 2-1 winners over Japan within the different quarterfinal within the backside half of the draw.
