Program for Thursday: Bulgaria opens its participation in the United Cup, against Grigor Tsitsipas
Less than 24 hours away from the start of the new season, which will start with the newly created United Cup team competition. It will be of a mixed nature and will be held between December 29 and January 8 in Australia, bringing together the representatives of 18 countries, including Bulgaria. Our team has a playing captain, Grigor Dimitrov, and besides him, our team also includes Victoria Tomova, Dimitar Kuzmanov, Alexander Lazarov, Isabella Shinikova and Gergana Topalova.
Already on the first competitive day of the tournament, we will have the pleasure of watching our native representatives, as the program foresees the start of the match between Bulgaria and Greece on Thursday. On December 29, the matches between the women’s second rackets and the men’s first rackets of the two teams will be played, which means that the former will see Isabella Shinikova and Despina Papamikhail against the latter, after which Grigor Dimitrov and Stefanos Tsitsipas will take the court. The remaining three matches to be played between the two sides will take place on Friday, and here is the full schedule for the matches involving our compatriots.
December 29 – Bulgaria vs. Greece (start no earlier than 06:00 Bulgarian time)
1st match: Isabella Shinikova – Despina Papamikhail
2nd match: Grigor Dimitrov – Stefanos Tsitsipas
December 30 – Bulgaria Greece play-off (start no earlier than 04:00 a.m. Bulgarian time)
3rd match: Victoria Tomova – Maria Sakari
4th match: Dimitar Kuzmanov – Mikhail Pervolarakis
5th match: mixed doubles match
You can see the full program for Thursday here.