On the afternoon of this Friday, April 15, Colombia played its last three matches against Brazil at the close of the third round of Pool A of Group I in the Americas Zone in the play-off qualification phase of the Billie Jean King Cup 2022.
Captained by Fabiola Zuluaga, coffee representatives Yuliana Lizarazo and María Fernanda Herazo lost in their respective games to Carolina Alves and Laura Pigossi, 216 and 126 competitors in the WTA ranking.
In the first match, Yuliana Lizarazo could not consolidate her game against Alves, who in one hour and 54 minutes overcame her in two sets of 7-5 and 7-5. In this match the 28-year-old Cucuteña recorded one ace, three double fouls and three break points:
On the second chance of the day for Colombia to try to stop Brazil's undefeated, the turn was for Barranquilla María Fernanda Herazo González, who played against the current runner-up of the Colsanitas Cup, Laura Pigossi.
Only one hour and 9 minutes was enough for Pigossi to keep the match. In just 23 minutes she threw Maria Fernanda with 6-0 in the first set and in the second set, the Brazilian won 6-4 in 46 minutes to end the coffee dream in Salinas, Ecuador, to qualify for the play-offs of the women's tennis competition in November.
Two double fouls and a converted break point against Pigossi's five, sentenced Colombia's final in Pool A of Group I in the Americas area:
It should be recalled that Colombia started the Round Robin series of the Billie Jean King Cup qualification without Maria Camila Osorio (injured in the semifinal of the Colsanitas Cup) and losing its first three games to Argentina. Apart from Lizarazo and Herazo, tennis player Maria Paulina Pérez was in the opening day doubles game on Wednesday, April 13 in Ecuador:
On the second day, everything improved markedly for the national team in their confrontation against Guatemala. In all three matches, the coffee tennis players defeated their Central American peers in two sets:
The third match of matchday 3 for Colombia was played in the doubles mode and was attended by the youth Antonia Samudio along with María Paulina Pérez facing Gabriela Cé and Rebeca Pereira. The coffee makers fell in two sets and said goodbye to the competition.
The play-offs for the permanence will be played third place in pool A against fourth in pool B and third place in Group B against fourth in Group A. The two losing nations will be relegated to Group II of the American Zone in 2023.
Thus, Colombia could not improve its third place in pool A of the qualifying in Group I of the Americas and will fight not to descend against the last delegation of group B, that is, Paraguay. The same situation is going through Guatemala, which will battle for its permanence before Ecuador.
Within Group II of the Americas in the 2022 edition of the Billie Jean King Cup are the following countries, which are now looking for a place in Group I for the following year:
Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela.
A year ago Colombia participated in this competition, formerly called the Fed Cup, with Emiliana Arango and María Camila Osorio Serrano in its ranks. The coffee delegation was eliminated by Argentina and was unable to reach the play-off area, where Argentina and Mexico did settle, countries that won with the participation of Nadia Podoroska, Paula Ormaechea; Fernanda Contreras and Giuliana Olmos.
These two countries (Argentina and Mexico) ranked the definition zone by title together with Brazil as representatives of the Americas, however, they could do little in Cordoba, London and Bytom (respectively) against Kazakhstan, England and Poland, who went on to the definition for the title in Prague, Czech Republic.
Finally, the world title of the 2020/21 edition went to the Russian Women's Tennis Federation after beating 2-0 in the final against Switzerland with the participation of Daria Kasatkina, Liudmila Samsonova and Ekaterina Alexandrova.
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