NEW DELHI: The International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced Friday that the Fed Cup Asia-Oceania Group-1 women’s tennis event, scheduled to be held in Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan, from February 4 to 8, has been postponed.
“The ITF is working with the six competing nations, China, India, Korea, Chinese Taipei, Uzbekistan and Indonesia to reschedule. Further details will be announced shortly,” the ITF stated in a tweet on its official Twitter handle.
“We should be hearing from the ITF in another day or so, about the new dates and venue,” the captain of the Indian Fed Cup team Vishaal Uppal told Sportstar.
The six-team round robin competition, from which two teams will qualify for the World Group-2 play-off, was originally scheduled to be held in Dongguan, China. It got shifted to Kazakhstan following the coronavirus epidemic in China.
According to the magazine, the delay could be a blessing in disguise for the Indian team, as the former World No.1 and six-time Grand Slam champion, Sania Mirza, returning to the professional circuit after more than two years, would get some more time to recover from the calf injury she suffered at the Australian Open.
Sania, who won her first tournament on return in Hobart partnering with Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine, retired midway through the first round of the year's first Grand Slam to avoid aggravating the calf injury.
- Log in to post comments