{"id":5590,"date":"2013-02-11T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2013-02-11T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T23:00:02","slug":"czech-republic-defeats-australia-in-fed-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/11\/czech-republic-defeats-australia-in-fed-cup","title":{"rendered":"Czech Republic defeats Australia in Fed Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Australian Fed Cup team will look at more than the disappointing score line to determine the success of this weekend\u2019s 4-0 first round loss to the defending champions in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

With the team 2-0 down going into day two Sam Stosur put up a valiant effort against Petra Kvitova but was unable to continue the momentum that saw her take the first set 6-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I did much wrong today,\u201d Stosur said after the 2-6 7-6(3) 6-4 loss. \u201cPetra played a very good match. In the second set I thought we were both playing very high quality and when it comes down to that, it was just a point here and a point there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably one of the better matches I\u2019ve played in a few months. I\u2019m not too far away and it\u2019s just a matter of \u2018keep on going\u2019 and really using a match like today to drive myself and try and turn all this around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSam really put herself in a winning position against by far the best Fed Cup player out there,\u201d captain Alicia Molik said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPetra now has a 13 out of 14 winning record in Fed Cup singles matches \u2026 she won that match, I didn\u2019t feel like Sam lost it whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian Open doubles finalists Casey Dellacqua and 16-year-old Fed Cup debutante Ashleigh Barty teamed for the dead doubles rubber, going down 6-0 7-6(1) against one of the world\u2019s strongest doubles teams Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka.<\/p>\n

Molik had high praise for Barty, who showed maturity beyond her years to work with Dellacqua and change their tactics against a vastly more experienced team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think at times today the Czech team was left wondering what she was going to do because she can hit with spin and she can hit with a lot of power as well,\u201d Molik said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what helps Ash with her tennis is that she\u2019s incredibly mentally mature. She plays tennis far beyond her years and she plays doubles like she\u2019s been playing for the last 15 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has great instinct on the court, which you can only teach to a certain point. A lot players even in the top-20 ranks in doubles don\u2019t have great doubles instincts and she does already.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the tie determined by the third singles rubber the second reverse singles between Jarmila Gajdosova and Lucie Safarova was not played.<\/p>\n

Australia now goes into the draw with other World Group first round losers and World Group II first round winners for the World Group Play-Off set for 20-21 April. Further details on Australia\u2019s opponent and the venue for the tie will be updated later this week.<\/p>\n

CZECH REPUBLIC v AUSTRALIA \u2013 WORLD GROUP FIRST ROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n

Results: Saturday 9 February 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Petra Kvitova (CZE) d Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) 7-6(2) 6-3<\/p>\n

Lucie Safarova (CZE) d Samantha Stosur (AUS) 6-7(6) 6-7(4)<\/p>\n

Results:\u00a0 Sunday 10 February 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Petra Kvitova (CZE) d Samantha Stosur (AUS) 2-6 7-6(3) 6-4<\/p>\n

Andrea Hlavackova\/Lucie Hradecka (CZE) d Ashleigh Barty\/Casey Dellacqua (AUS) 6-0 7-6 (1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Fed Cup team will look at more than the disappointing score line to determine the success of this weekend\u2019s 4-0 first round loss to the defending champions in the Czech Republic. With the team 2-0 down going into day two Sam Stosur put up a valiant effort against Petra Kvitova but was unable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}