Tennis Fed Cup coach Johan Van Herck has six players included in a pre-selection for the duel against Spain in the barrages of the Wereldgroep (20 and 21 april). The six-Elise Mertens (WTA 14), Alison Van Uytvanck (WTA 51), Kirsten Flipkens (WTA 56), Ysaline Bonaventure (WTA 122), Yanina Wickmayer (WTA 141) & Greet Minnen (WTA 212). The first four formed the quartet in February in Liège from France lost.
The international match against Spain on 20 and 21 april, played in Kortrijk. Van Herck wants to make his final selection ten days prior to disclosure. It is a question whether the Yanina Wickmayer after more than a year of absence returns to the team. They lacked in 2018 in the selections of Dominique Monami and Ivo Van Aken, the predecessors of Van Herck. The current Fed Cup coach, took her or in his first selection, against France. But against Spain celebrates ‘Wicky’ as possible, her comeback, as was Van Herck believe.
“Its latest results prove that they are back on level. That we have in Miami seen”, is a reference much further to the second round Wickmayer beat it out of you and that they are the world’s number 1 Naomi Osaka fire to the shins explained. “Her cards are definitely better than the end of January”, he added.
Van Herck traveled, incidentally, to Miami to the players to see the work. “I have the federation to thank for that opportunity”, he stressed. “I have a lot of contacts can have with the girls. And I also put the Spaniards to the work seen, Muguruza against Niculescu, and Suarez Navarro against Venus Williams. The girls are with qualities but we should not be impressed and we know not even whether they are there (in Kortrijk). The most important thing is that we give our focus to keep. We have a lot of qualities, there are a lot of options with this team. We go for the victory and preservation in the Wereldgroep.