Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek received’t play within the Billie Jean King Cup after the WTA Finals
LONDON (AP) — U.S. Open champion Coco Gauff was left off the American group for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals on Monday, whereas second-ranked Iga Swiatek of Poland is skipping the occasion for the second yr in a row.
Gauff and Jessica Pegula, the 2 highest-ranked American gamers, had been each absent from the U.S. group introduced Monday. Madison Keys, Sofia Kenin, Danielle Collins, Sloane Stephens and Taylor Townsend will play for the U.S. on the Nov. 7-12 occasion in Seville, Spain.
The greatest group competitors in ladies’s tennis begins solely two days after the tip of the WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico, which is able to characteristic the highest eight gamers on the tour — together with Gauff, Pegula and Swiatek.
Swiatek, who was then ranked No. 1, skipped final yr’s Billie Jean King Cup in Glasgow, Scotland, due to an analogous scheduling scenario. She mentioned then that the “situation is not safe for our health” when gamers must journey to this point for the 12-team occasion — which is organized by the International Tennis Federation — proper after the WTA Finals. She was left off the Poland group on Monday.
Gauff introduced Sunday she was withdrawing from this week’s Zhengzhou Open event in China due to a shoulder harm that bothered her throughout a loss to Swiatek on the China Open semifinals final week. Swiatek received that event on Sunday for her fifth title of the yr.
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