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Old 03-10-2008, 02:11 AM   #1
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Default Fed Cup Final 9/13-9/14/2008
Russia vs Spain

Club de Campo - Villa de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Stadium Capacity: 4000
13 September - 14 September 2008
Day 1: 1400 hrs (1200 hrs GMT)
Day 2: 1200 hrs (1000 hrs GMT)
Surface: Clay (Red Clay) - Outdoors
Ball Type: Dunlop Fort All Court
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Old 03-10-2008, 04:29 AM   #2
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Team Nominations for 2008 Fed Cup Final
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:36 AM ET

Here are the team nominations for the 2008 Fed Cup World Group Final between Spain and Russia, to be played Sept. 13-14, in Madrid.

WORLD GROUP FINAL
SPAIN v RUSSIA

Venue: Club de Campo - Villa de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (clay - outdoors)

Spain

Anabel Medina Garrigues
Carla Suarez Navarro
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Virginia Ruano-Pascual
Captian: Miguel Margets

Russia

Svetlana Kuznetsova
Vera Zvonareva
Elena Vesnina
Ekaterina Makarova
Captain: Shamil Tarpischev

http://www.usta.com/sitecore/content...Cup_Final.aspx
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Old 03-10-2008, 04:31 AM   #3
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Team Nominations for 2008 Fed Cup Final
Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:36 AM ET


Spain
Carla Suarez Navarro

Russia
Ekaterina Makarova
Two of my nemeses!!!

I'm not feeling as comfortable about Russia's win with the Makarova choice.
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Old 03-10-2008, 04:43 AM   #4
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I'm not feeling as comfortable about Russia's win with the Makarova choice.
I somehow doubt she will actually play a live rubber...
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Old 03-10-2008, 04:46 AM   #5
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I somehow doubt she will actually play a live rubber...
She won't. But if something happens to Vera or Sveta, Vesnina will.
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Old 03-10-2008, 04:51 AM   #6
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Spain should easily take the doubles!
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Old 03-10-2008, 05:44 AM   #7
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No Elena, Safina, Chaks, Kirilenko or Nadia? That's a whole lot of people missing.

Russia having to slate Makarova is absurd.
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Old 03-10-2008, 05:46 AM   #8
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No Elena, Safina, Chaks, Kirilenko or Nadia? That's a whole lot of people missing.

Russia having to slate Makarova is absurd.
Dinara asked to excuse her so that she can rest. Same decision was made for Elena. I know Petrova was considered. I'm thinking he underestimates the Spanish and wants to give the elite players rest so they do well in the fall.

Have been wondering all year why Kirilenko hasn't played FedCup in forever. I think it could help her.
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Old 08-10-2008, 06:07 AM   #9
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Ekaterina Makarova
Talk about a baptism of fire – making your representative debut in the final of the biggest team competition open to you! That’s the reality facing the 20-year-old Muscovite Ekaterina Makarova, who finds herself drafted into the Russian team for her Fed Cup debut despite being ranked 56th in singles and just 10th among the Russians.

She’s also the 10th-ranked Russian on her doubles ranking of 68, but the fact that she has won nine titles on the ITF Futures circuit is probably what swayed Shamil Tarpischev to call her into his squad for the trip to Madrid ahead of higher-ranked players. She has played regularly with Alisa Kleybanova, who might have earned the call-up, but the left-handed Makarova has got the nod. She is no relation to Elena Makarova, who played in 25 ties for Russia between 1992 and 1999.

--- from the Fed Cup website, News Articles
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Old 08-10-2008, 06:15 AM   #10
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Anabel Medina Garrigues
Carla Suarez Navarro
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Virginia Ruano-Pascual
Midgets.

Average height: 5'4"
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Old 08-10-2008, 06:45 AM   #11
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Spanish men's tennis is perhaps the strongest in the world. Women, on the other hand, are mediocre at best. I wonder why....
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Old 08-10-2008, 06:58 AM   #12
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Yet, this is the Spanish team that beat CHINA to get here ---
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Old 08-10-2008, 07:01 AM   #13
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I saw almost 2 sets of Makarova's match against Li at the USO. She's okay. She could conceivably challenge anyone on the Spanish squad in singles, if she had to. Not saying she'd win, but she COULD... If she had to.

She has a loyal group of fans... Or family members. They rooted for her ferociously.
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Old 08-10-2008, 07:02 AM   #14
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Yet, this is the Spanish team that beat CHINA to get here ---
Fluke... None of them have any chance whatsoever to reach the top 10 in singles.
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Old 09-10-2008, 12:09 AM   #15
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Fluke... None of them have any chance whatsoever to reach the top 10 in singles.
I've read that Llagostera's a future number one.




Oh, never mind. I read that wrong. It said she's five foot one. She'd best be careful she doesn't end up on the bottom of Akgul's shoe.
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Old 09-13-2008, 01:10 PM   #16
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OK, I'm convinced Zvonareva is either hypothermic or under a spell of some experimental coaching. She wore a fleece hoodie in her warm-up in New York in about 90-degree heat, she's wearing a full warm-up today with pants while Anabel's just wearing her dress and all the audience is sitting with paper fans.
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Old 09-13-2008, 01:58 PM   #17
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First set 6:3 to Vera

I think she's looking really good. (both tennis and outfit-wise)
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Old 09-13-2008, 02:32 PM   #18
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I need this over with. I keep accidentally cheering for Anabel.
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Old 09-13-2008, 02:41 PM   #19
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I need this over with. I keep accidentally cheering for Anabel.
LOL. I had no idea you dislike vera that much.

.. you might get your wish, though. vera serving for it at 5:4
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Old 09-13-2008, 02:43 PM   #20
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I need this over with. I keep accidentally cheering for Anabel.
LOL. I think I'm one of three people watching this match this morning here on TAT.

Bepa scares me sometimes. Actually so does Kuzy.
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