International women’s tennis comes to Wollongong with the Fed Cup being played in the city for the first time since 2003.
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Australia will play the Netherlands on April 21-22 in a tie the Aussies must win to get back into the Fed Cup’s World Group.
The team of Casey Dellacqua, Ashleigh Barty, Daria Gavrilova and Destanee Aiava enoyed a 3-2 victory in a World Group II Fed Cup tie against the Ukraine in Canberra last month.
The last time Fed Cup international tennis was played in Wollongong was also against Colombia in 2003.
Alicia Molik was the star in that tie played inside the then recently built Wollongong Entertainment Centre.
Now 15 years later Molik is the team captain when Australia’s best female tennis players do battle on an indoor court again being installed inside WIN Entertainment Centre.
Tickets are expected to go on sale through Ticketmaster next Friday for the international sporting event that comes on the back of the Wigan vs Hull English Super League match played at WIN Stadium on February 10. The clash is being brought to Wollongong by Destination NSW and Tennis Australia.
The 2018 Molik-captained Australian team is arguably our best in four decades boasting three players in the WTA top 50.
Winning the April 21-22 tie will mean Molik's team will advance to the top-eight nations for the first time since 2015.
A big Wollongong crowd will help give the Aussies a chance to advance another major step towards their first overall title in more than four decades. Teams are named 10 days out from the tie.
