Women’s tennis dominates sports news these
\ndays. Romania’s Fed Cup team are meeting the trophy holders, the Czech
\nRepublic, in Ostrava at the weekend. The match is part of the World Group Round
\n1 and will be played on hard court at the Ostravar Arena, which seats 6,350
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World no. 3 Simona Halep, world no. 29 Mihaela
\nBuzarnescu and world no. 105 Ana Bogdan will travel to Ostrava on Monday
\ntogether with their non-playing captain Florin Segarceanu and coach Alina
\nTecsor. Romania’s Fed Cup team also includes Monica Niculescu and Irina Begu,
\nwho just won the Thailand Open doubles trophy on Sunday. Niculescu is ranked
\n106th in the world and Begu 75th. <\/p>\n
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World no. 5 Karolina Pliskova will lead the
\nCzech team. According to the Fed Cup’s official Twitter page cited by the
\nRomanian Agerpres news agency, the Czech non-playing captain Petr Pala also called
\nup Katerina Siniakova, world no. 1 in the WTA doubles ranking, Barbora
\nKrejcikova, world no. 2 in the doubles ranking, and Marketa Vondrousova, world
\nno. 73. World no. 2 and Australian Open finalist Petra Kvitova will not be
\nplaying in the Fed Cup matches against Romania because of a busy schedule. <\/p>\n
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The Czech Republic and Romania last time faced
\neach in the Fed Cup in 2016 in Cluj, when the Czech team won 3-2. The Czech
\nRepublic have won the competition six times since 2011, only failing to do so
\nin 2013, when the title went to Italy, and in 2017, when the US won. <\/p>\n
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