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SAN DIEGO, California (USA), November 7, 2010 - The most complicated thing when you're as strong as Barcelona are playing against teams like the Copenhagen. On paper, I have to do your games with ease, but sometimes the unexpected is lurking. He was also running the risk of this Italy Fed Cup final, the fourth in the last five years: facing weak opponents and a prediction too tilted in his favor. A danger that in the run, the captain had tried to exorcise Barazzutti. Mission accomplished, or nearly so: the first day was one-way, ours. Score: Italy 2 USA 0.
SCHIAVONE ON VELVET - The first point takes him to Francesca Schiavone, who beat the young (18 years) and mammoth Coco Vandeweghe 6-2, 6-4. The blue employs 1:23 a.m. ', only because the second set is prolonged beyond the expected. In the first, Francesca annihilates his rivals, which precedes by 107 positions in the ranking: the moves here and there, taking advantage of the amount of Coco that has no legs to sprint. In the second, the tension is released americanona debut, manages to snatch a service to Francesca and move to four of the first to capitulate. He says the Italian: "In the second, I fell: I served with slower and less aggressive. And she took the opportunity to rise. In those cases it takes a moment to turn the match. "
PENNETTE FATIGUE - In the second match, Flavia Pennetta much more effort to beat his partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the number one Yankee (number 58), wearing bright red socks to the knee: 7 -6 (7-4), 6-2 in 2 hours of play. Too bad, because the Brindisi in the first set to go up 5-1 with three break before getting incredibly recapture and exceed the 5-6. We need, then, his great determination to prevail in the tiebreaker. He explains: "Let's say I have 5-1 on a second rigid. I started wrong to wait and she took advantage. " In the second set, the match going downhill. The Mattek is also forced to call in the therapist for a calf problem and Pennetta took advantage and closed quickly. The happiest of all is the captain Barazzutti that says: "This team is very strong, the strongest steel and the girls are."
TODAY TO CLOSE - now missing very little to the finish, but no one dares to utter words of celebration: they know that would be an unforgivable mistake. Today at 13 local time (22 Italian) go into the field against Schiavone and Pennetta against Mattek Vandeweghe (but if the score was still in the balance, Mary Joe Fernandez, the captain could be promoted in his place Melanie Oudin). Massimo Lopes Pegna
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