According to Czech Republic team captain, Petr Pala, Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova will lead the Czech Republic against defending champions the United States in the Fed Cup final in Prague on November 10-11, 2018
Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova, world number seven and eight, respectively, will team up with 31st-ranked Katerina Siniakova, theworld number one in doubles, and 33rd-ranked Barbora Strycova, who is fifth in doubles.
The team captain said;
“I’m really excited, I appreciate having the strongest team I could put together”
The final pitting the two most successful nations in Fed Cup history, the USA with 18 trophies and the Czech Republic with 10 including five as the former Czechoslovakia , will be played on the hard court of the sold-out 15,000-capacity O2 Arena.
The Czechs have won five of the last seven editions including all three finals they have played on Prague’s hardcourt led by Kvitova and Pliskova,
“We are good at the finals, we are not so good against the Americans. We have never lost in the O2 Arena, but we have never beaten the Americans in the final,” Pala said.
In this year’s semi-finals, the Czechs beat Germany in Stuttgart while the United States edged France in Aix-en-Provence.
