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Bulgaria Defeats Hungary, Latvia in Fed Cup

Sports | February 4, 2016, Thursday // 16:17

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Bulgaria: Bulgaria Defeats Hungary, Latvia in Fed Cup

The players representing Bulgaria at the Fed Cup. Photo: BGNES

Bulgaria defeated Hungary and Latvia in its matches from Europe/Africa zone Group 1 of the Fed Cup.

On Wednesday, Bulgaria won against Hungary with 2:1, while on Thursday it defeated Latvia with the same score.

Bulgaria is represented by its highest ranking female tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova, Elitsa Kostova, Isabella Shinikova and Dia Evtimova.

Bulgaria won its all four singles matches, while it suffered two defeats in the doubles encounters.

Pironkova defeated successively Reka-Luca Jani from Hungary (6:1, 6:1) and Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia with (6:0, 6:2).

Similarly, Kostova recorded successive victories against Hungarian Dalma Galfi (7:5, 6:2) and Latvian Diana Marcinkevica (2:6, 6:3, 6:3).

In the doubles matches, Evtimova and Shinikova lost successively to Dalma Galfi and Fanni Stollar from Hungary (3:6, 1:6) and Diana Marcinkevica and Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia (6:4, 0:6, 5:7).

On Friday, Bulgaria will face Belgium in a match which will determine which of the teams will occupy the first place in the final standing.

Belgum tops the current standing, having won all its singles and doubles matches against Hungary and Latvia.

The winner of the group will qualify for the play-off which and will have the chance to compete for promotion to the upper division.

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