[Jorn]

Tamira and her team in a Israeli airport.

[Andiyan]

Tamira Meusi really looks like she's almost 50 yo

[hellas719]

Originally Posted by chingching

When Anett is 18, she will be top 100

But she isn't now so that's totally irrelevant

Originally Posted by chingching

Perhaps I am strong in my beliefs but you have to admit that Portugal would be the favourites if it wasnt for the israeli crowd. Eirini georgatou may beat kontaveit, but i wouldnt be surprised if she lost. And greece will not beat bosnia. They just dont have their players. And by the way, did Gerasimou either get anned or retire because she hasnt played since 2010

We have Daniilidou and Papamichail even though we are missing Georgatou and Gerasimou. Daniilidou and Papamichail should be enough to beat Bosnia. Eleni said that she is feeling 100% now and she is still in the team but I'm not sure if she will play because she said her next tournament is Pattaya . And now I see that Jugic-Salkic is playing a challenger in Australia so we have a good shot against Bosnia, even if Eleni doesn't play

Originally Posted by chingching

You are biased thogh because you are israeli
And anett has played 3 players in the top 200. All where at career highs and had come off great results. They were Stefanie Vogt in Glasgow (career high), Amra Sadikovic in Helsinki (just won a 50k beating some top players) and the third was putintseva in juniors (had just won eddie herr and was in orange bowl final). Anett beat Putintseva 6262, Sadikovic was 36 63 63 sadikovic but anett was 3-0 40-0 in 3rd set and against vogt, 64 75 included set points in the second set and break points at 4-4 on vogts serve first set. Despina Papamichail is only ranked so highly because she plays a lot of tournaments. Kontaveit played 9, and won 3. She woudl beat Papamichail 2 and 2 or something along those lines

None of those girls were ever top 200 . Despina doesn't even play that many tournaments, and when she does she plays challengers in Spain and France, which don't really have soft draws. I'm not saying Annett wouldn't beat Despina but 2 and 2 is a little harsh on Despina IMO

Originally Posted by chingching

Bosnia and herzogovina will beat greece. And anett is better in professional matches. The only match she has a chance in is against koehler or de brito

So you expect Tinjic to beat Daniilidou and Husaric to beat Papamichail?

Originally Posted by Andiyan

Tamira Meusi really looks like she's almost 50 yo

Where is Mayr-Achleitner?

[thadeuss]

Buzarnescu is in. Niculescu & Dulgheru are both injured

[chingching]

[quote=hellas719;20868548]But she isn't now so that's totally irrelevant



We have Daniilidou and Papamichail even though we are missing Georgatou and Gerasimou. Daniilidou and Papamichail should be enough to beat Bosnia. Eleni said that she is feeling 100% now and she is still in the team but I'm not sure if she will play because she said her next tournament is Pattaya . And now I see that Jugic-Salkic is playing a challenger in Australia so we have a good shot against Bosnia, even if Eleni doesn't play



None of those girls were ever top 200 . Despina doesn't even play that many tournaments, and when she does she plays challengers in Spain and France, which don't really have soft draws. I'm not saying Annett wouldn't beat Despina but 2 and 2 is a little harsh on Despina IMO



So you expect Tinjic to beat Daniilidou and Husaric to beat Papamichail?



Where is Mayr-Achleitner? [/Q]

You are right about greece beating bosnia now. At the time I thought Eleni was injured and that Jugic Salkic was playing.

And by the way, it is completely relevant when I said Anett would be top 100 when she was 18. You said that Despina was top 400 and that she was only 18!!!I said that when Anett was only 18!!!! then she would be top 100. The people anett played were nearly top 200. Despina would lose to all of them in straight sets comfortably

[chingching]

And by the way, Despina just lost to Manisha Foster ranked 778 61 75. You dont think Anett would beat her 2 and 2 if anett was playing her best.
You are so stupid. And you said Despina played challengers in france and spain, well she hasnt made it past the second round in 6 months and recently lost first round in a 10k in england

[chingching]

Originally Posted by thadeuss

Buzarnescu is in. Niculescu & Dulgheru are both injured

They didnt put Sorana in after Australian open form.
Poland is through now

[chingching]

Originally Posted by Andiyan

Not gonna comment.

Greece will now beat Bosnia because they dont have Jugic Salkic and it seems that Daniilidou will play but Anett might be able to scam a set of either Larcher de Brito or Koehler

[chingching]

Originally Posted by Hakapeszi

In lauding the standard of the competition, Shlomo Tzoref, a former Israeli Davis Cup captain, likened the Eilat event to a top WTA tournament: "I have been to many, many tournaments all over the world but it's not every day that you get to see such a large number of high-calibre players all in the same place at once. If you compare it to the tour, it's like a $600,000 WTA tournament," he said.


GM thread
http://www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=452697

[TeamUla]

Originally Posted by Jorn

Tamira and her team in a Israeli airport.

where is Mayr?

[TeamUla]

Originally Posted by thadeuss

Buzarnescu is in. Niculescu & Dulgheru are both injured

So the team will be Begu, Halep and Buzarnescu?

[thadeuss]

Originally Posted by MaDu

So the team will be Begu, Halep and Buzarnescu?

yeah, 3 players and 2 captains

[chingching]

Originally Posted by thadeuss

yeah, 3 players and 2 captains

Whos that other girl. Or do they actually have 2 captains

[TeamUla]

Buzarnescu, I don't know, Captain, Halep, Begu

[Meelis]

Originally Posted by chingching

Whos that other girl. Or do they actually have 2 captains

Buzarnescu, Catalin Cristea, Sever Dron, Halep, Begu