The Indian crew strikes a vibrant pose in Tashkent for the Asia-Oceania Billie Jean KIng Cup tennis event.| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

It has been a memorable ten years for Ankita Raina in serving the Indian crew within the Billie Jean King Cup tennis event, earlier known as the FedCup. She is hungry and desperate to carry out at her finest but once more, within the Asia-Oceania occasion to be staged in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from April 11 to fifteen.

It is sort of a brand new look crew, as solely Rutuja Bhosale is the opposite skilled participant within the squad together with Ankita.

Shrivalli Bhamidipaty changed Karman Kaur Thandi, nursing an damage, and acquired the visa in time to journey to Tashkent together with Ankita and Rutuja on Saturday.

Sahaja Yamalapalli and Vaidehi Chaudhari had reached earlier together with captain Shalini Chawla, coach Radhika Kanitkar and physio Ajeeta Goel.

Immensely proud

“I feel immensely proud and grateful for the 10-year stint with the Indian team. It has been a lot of experience. We know all the teams and the players. It is just about how we bring our best on each day”, mentioned the 30-year-old Ankita.

Over the years, Ankita has crushed a number of the finest gamers within the area like Yulia Punitseva, Zhu Lin, Yaroslava Shvedova, Nigina Abduraimova and Nao Hibino. She did have a terrific match in opposition to the previous French Open champion, Jelena Ostapenko, when India performed Latvia within the World Group play-off for the primary time in 2021.

Ankita has an 18-16 win-loss report in singles within the competitors, and 8-6 in doubles.

It is a powerful area as China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and Uzbekistan are the opposite groups, and everybody performs on a round-robin format. The prime two groups qualify for the World Group play-off and the underside two get relegated to group-2.

“The teams are similar like last year. We will play our best”, mentioned Ankita who has had a wonderful run within the skilled circuit in current weeks.

“I have been persevering and playing some good tennis. I am more fit than ever before. The good results have come owing to specific improvements in the game”, mentioned Ankita.

It could possibly be thrilling time for Indian girls’s tennis, as Ankita and the women try to let their racquets do all of the speaking.