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Czech Republic nominate Fed Cup team against Switzerland

Xinhua,January 31, 2018 Adjust font size:

PRAGUE, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Czech tennis Fed Cup team coach Petr Pala on Tuesday announced the squad to face Switzerland in the first round.

Karolina Pliskova, Barbora Strycova, Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova, a lineup which won the Fed Cup in 2015, will play in Prague on February 10-11.

Switzerland's coach Martina Hingis already released her list of Timea Bacsinszky, Belinda Bencic, Viktoria Golubic and Jil Teichmann for the matchup.

The Czech team won the Fed Cup five times between 2011 and 2016. In the previous season, the Czech team lost to the United States in the semifinal.

Czech Republic beat Switzerland in the semifinal in 2016 to keep a 6-1 record in the tournament against the Swiss. Enditem