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The Philippine girls’s tennis crew heads again to worldwide play within the Billie Jean King Cup, the place the debuting Alex Eala hopes to guide the nationwide squad’s bid for promotion
MANILA, Philippines –The final time the Philippines performed within the Billie Jean King Cup, Alex Eala was simply 14 years previous. This week, the nationwide tennis standout heads into her first Billie Jean King Cup as the very best ranked participant in your entire discipline of the Asia Oceania Group III.
Lower than every week after the Philippine males’s crew flew to Bahrain to brush its 4 ties in Group V, thus incomes a promotion to Group IV of the Davis Cup, will probably be the Philippine girls’s crew’s flip to mark the nation’s return to worldwide crew play from November 25-27 on the Bahrain Tennis Membership in Manama.
The Philippine crew will probably be led by the 19-year-old Eala and former Philippine No. 1 Marian Capadocia.
Finishing the squad are two extremely touted US-based gamers in Khim Iglupas and Shaira Rivera, who each compete for the College of West Alabama varsity squad.
Iglupas, who hails from Iligan, earned All-American honors after ending because the fifth-best participant within the NCAA Division II this 12 months, whereas Rivera was a former Ateneo de Manila star from Davao.
Longtime nationwide crew member Denise Dy, who’s the pinnacle coach of the US NCAA Division I college Fresno State College, serves because the Philippine crew’s non-playing captain.
The Philippines has been drawn in Pool B together with Qatar, Nepal, and Guam.
Dy might want to steer her wards to the highest of Pool B to advance to the playoff for promotion, the place they may face the highest crew from Pool C, which consists of host Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Laos, and Turkmenistan.
The winner of the playoff encounter will earn a promotion to Group II in 2025.
The Philippine Tennis Affiliation (PHILTA) was suspended in December 2020 by the world governing physique of the game, the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF), as a consequence of mismanagement points.
This prevented the nation from becoming a member of each the Billie Jean King Cup and the Davis Cup for over 4 years.
ITF reinstated PHILTA early this 12 months after the native federation instituted modifications in management.
The final time the nation participated within the Billie Jean King Cup was in February 2020, when a crew composed of Capadocia, Rivera, and Ana Clarice Patrimonio swept pool play, however fell to host New Zealand within the playoff match to overlook out on the possibility to earn a promotion to Asia Oceania Group I. – Rappler.com
