Tathiana Garbin clarifies Camila Giorgi’s forfeit

The words of Tathiana Garbin

Tathiana Garbin spoke about Italy’s painful qualification to the BJK Cup Finals: “Passion, determination and perseverance. The day was off to a bad start. The technical choice of not fielding Martina Trevisan in singles we had thought about it a bit on Friday. She is decisive when she plays doubles, I wanted to keep her for that occasion if she was ever to be there. Camila Giorgi, on the other hand, was fine this morning, but at the last minute she did not want to play: maybe she thought she could not finish the match.”

“Jasmine Paolini had managed to turn the match around from her side, ahead 3-0 0-40, but the match turned out to be damn difficult. Elisabetta Cocciaretto thought she was going to go in right away, but instead she went in later and against a different opponent than the one we had prepared for. In the last minutes of the doubles I thought I was just giving them a big charge. We were facing a doubles specialist and another one who plays it very well. My girls’ values grew in the important moments of the match and it showed.”