There was some Tennis after all to finish off the Sunday night and into the early hours of Monday from Malaga in Spain with the Billie Jean King Cup involving Australia.
The good news is that they had the early round Finals bye to begin straight from the Quarter-Finals tie v Slovakia, but the bad news is that the Aussies were outclassed following a 2-0 series straight defeat.
Yes, we saw some brilliant tennis at times from Kimberly Birrell including that 2nd set fight to open up the deciding set while it was good seeing Ajla Tomjlanovic back in action in a while after a long layoff from injury.
It just wasn’t enough unfortunately to fight on another day even a 1-1 tie might have encouraged our doubles pair of Ellen Perez & Daria Saville to live on another day – at least on the Tennis court that could’ve seen them face Great Britain in the semis that will begin tomorrow night.
Alex De Minaur’s British girlfriend Katie Boulter is having an excellent impact so far for Team GB and so does her team-mate Emma Raducanu who won the US Open back in 2021. Who knows what could happen and they could do in the hope of going one step further towards Wednesday’s Final for that one prestigious trophy named after our female Tennis icon (Billie Jean King) against either Poland or Italy.
Want more of De Minaur? The Davis Cup Finals week will then begin this Thursday to Sunday starting with the USA & he too would love to go big and go home with the Davis Cup trophy for our Aussie team.
Would’ve it been lovely if Katie won the BJK Cup and Alex won the Davis Cup for their won countries? That would be another couple goals success story of Tennis in 2024 after they won three other weekly tournaments all within the same time during that same weekend together.
