Fun Q&A with Bethanie. Hey Liezel, you should get some tips from Bethanie on how to keep things classy and in perspective:
There was a lot of talk about Venus and Serena Williams not playing. Do you think the Fed Cup should stick to the same team all year?
That option has never been brought up, sticking to one team for the year. It’s tough to say. If it were to be a one-team format, teams would be made differently. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to see who really wants to commit to Fed Cup. Obviously if Venus or Serena would have come [against Russia] I wouldn’t have been able to play singles, so without them being there, it gave me the opportunity to come up with the win and have that experience. They’re the number one and four players in the world, so you can’t tell them no. It’s just tough because the team that was there was the team that really wanted to be there, wanted to play for the U.S. and made the commitment to either withdraw from tournaments or not play tournaments. It’s a team event, and that’s what it should be first and foremost.
