Fed Cup: Debutant Lottner surprisingly equalizes

Minsk (SID) Debutante Antonia Lottner (Düsseldorf) equalized the German Fed Cup team, which had been severely weakened by replacements, in the first round duel in Belarus. The 21-year-old surprisingly won against the Belarusian top player Alexandra Sasnowitsch 7:5, 6:4 and thus equalized the score at 1:1. At the start, Tatjana Maria (Bad Saulgau), Germany's number one in the absence of Angelique Kerber (Kiel) and Julia Görges (Bad Oldesloe), lost to Arina Sabalenka 6:4, 1:6, 2:6. Lottner did better, playing with strong nerves in her first appearance in the Fed Cup and not letting the backdrop in Minsk unsettle her. After 1:37 hours Lottner converted her first match point. On Sunday, Germany needs two more wins, otherwise the selection of the new team boss Jens Gerlach will have to go into relegation like last year. It starts at 11.00 a.m. (DAZN) with Maria against Sasnowitsch, then Lottner meets Sabalenka. For the doubles, Gerlach nominated the experienced Anna-Lena Grönefeld (Nordhorn) and the young Anna-Lena Friedsam (Neuwied) in her first match for Germany in his debut on the bench. The duo meets Wera Lapko and Lidija Marozawa. Belarus, which lost to the USA in the final last year, will also not have its best line-up in the duel with Germany. The two-time Australian Open winner and former world number one Wiktoria Asarenka will not be in Minsk this weekend.

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Fed Cup: Debutant Lottner surprisingly equalizes

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