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As befits American Independence Day, each of the finals on Saturday will feature two Americans – Venus and Serena Williams will contest the final of the women’s singles for the second year in a row, Bob and Mike Bryan are favourites to win the men’s doubles and then the ubiquitous Williams sisters will be back to defend their women’s doubles title.
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Eight of the top 10 ranked men’s doubles players and eight of the top 11 ranked women’s doubles players will contest the Wimbledon Wheelchair Men’s and Women’s Doubles events from 3-5 July.
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Top wheelchair doubles players to compete
Britain’s Elena Baltacha was powerless to prevent Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova from securing a place in the main draw of Roland Garros 2009. The 6-2 6-2 scoreline is further proof of a return to form for Shvedova, who was twice a junior finalist here in Paris and lived in the city for two years as a child.
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Qualifiers: Baltacha bows to resurgent Shvedova
Watch Fed Cup 2008 Final between Russia and Spain at www.watch-live-tennis.com. Premium live video feeds will be available at our member’s area. Join to our member’s area to watch live fed cup 2008 final match, which is scheduled to be start from 12:45 GMT, Friday, 13 September 2008.
This will be a classic battle between two traditional tennis powerhouses. The Russia Fed Cup team has owned this competition over the past five years, with victories in 2004, 2005 and 2007. Spain first competed in the Fed Cup in 1972 and has won five times. The Spaniards are in the role of the underdog, but they will have the support of the crowd. Russia is led by the experienced Svetlana Kuznetsova, who is currently the fourth ranked player in the world.
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Official Team Nominations for 2008 Final The ITF has announced the team nominations for the 2008 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final to be played on 13-14 September in Madrid.
Spain
Anabel Medina Garrigues
Carla Suarez-Navarro
Nuria Llagostera Vives
Virginia Ruano-Pascual
Captain: Miguel Margets Lobato
Russia
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Vera Zvonareva
Elena Vesnina
Ekaterina Makarova
Captain: Shamil Tarpishchev
(Under Fed Cup regulations, each team may change up to two of its nominations up to one hour before the draw)
This is the 46th Fed Cup Final and the first time that these two nations have met at the last stage. Russia has a 4-1 lead in the head-to-head record, with the most recent meeting being in 2007 at the Small Sports Arena ‘Luzhniki’ in Moscow. The Russians won that first round tie 5-0, but there’s no doubting that the Spanish team are a lot stronger now.
On paper, even without Maria Sharapova, Dinara Safina, Elena Dementieva and Nadia Petrova, the Russians still have a strong line-up with two of their four players ranked in the Top 10. In addition, there pedigree is unrivalled as they are No.1 in the Fed Cup rankings and have won the title twelve times.
World No. 4 Svetlana Kuznetsova will head the Russian team, along with No. 10 and Olympic bronze medallist Vera Zvonareva, who is in exceptional form at the moment. Elena Vesnina played in last years final, but not in a live rubber, and has 4-3 win-loss Fed Cup record. The final member of the team, Ekaterina Makarova, is a Fed Cup debutante and has a current world ranking of 56.
So with the Russian team not being as strong as they might have been, Spain do indeed have a real chance in this final, not least in the doubles, where Virginia Ruano Pascal and Anabel Medina Garrigues picked up a silver medal at the Olympics in Beijing. It also has to be noted that Nuria Llagostera Vives and Medina Garrigues are both unbeaten in Fed Cup singles matches in 2008. Also, with the home support at the Club de Campo - Villa de Madrid and the ‘feel good’ factor of all that is Spanish tennis at the moment with Rafael Nadal riding high as the world No. 1, it will be a fascinating weekend.
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Fed Cup is the premier team competition in women’s tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The competition was known as the Federation Cup until 1995.
The men’s equivalent of the Fed Cup is the Davis Cup.
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