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Quebec City to host Canada's next Fed Cup tie vs. Belarus in February
The bigger questions surrounding Canada's 2016 Fed Cup tie hopes are 1) whether Genie Bouchard will play and 2) will she be in better form than she was this year.
But the second question, the actual location site of Canada's first-round tie against Belarus, was answered Thursday as Tennis Canada announced Quebec City would welcome women's tennis Feb. 6-7, 2016.
"PEPS is becoming a second home for our team since we will be playing a Fed Cup tie at the venue for a third consecutive year. The girls like Quebec City and the fans there have always supported us," was the quote from Canadian Fed Cup captain Sylvain Bruneau in the press release.
The tie will be played in the PEPS complex, where the National Bank Cup was played last week. That's where the Canadians defeated Slovakia in 2015, and lost to the Czech Republic in February (without Bouchard).
If Victoria Azarenka plays for Belarus (she met the Olympic qualifications, barely, by playing twice in 2015) and Bouchard plays for Canada, it will definitely raise the level of both play and interest in the tie. Bouchard has already qualified for Rio.
Canada had been in Fed Cup's World Group I, the top eight women's tennis nations, until the loss to Romania in Montreal last April in a relegation tie.
So this is a World Group II encounter (which encompasses the nations ranked No. 9-16). Belarus is in World Group II for the first time in its history, thanks in large part to Azarenka's participation this year.
The winning team gets a playoff tie for the right to move up to World Group I; the losers must play a relegation tie and win it to remain in World Group II for 2017.
The squads will be announced in January, although Bruneau said in Montreal after the loss to Romania that he hoped to confirm player participation before the holidays, to try to to avoid all of the last-minute drama surrounding Bouchard for the April tie.
Good luck with that. But you never know.
