BJKC Finals 25 Kazakhstan pre event press conference

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00:00welcome everybody thank you to team

00:27Kazakhstan and we'll begin with a question for the captain

00:34question for the captain what are your thoughts on the week if you could share

00:38your thoughts on the week please with us captain if you can share with us your

00:46thoughts on this week on this competition

00:57beautiful center here like nice courts we all arrived like a couple days

01:06already here all the girls get used to the courts trying to get the good rhythm

01:12and well we're playing against one of the strongest team but I believe in our

01:21girls I think it's gonna be tough match but I believe you can have a good matches

01:27and trying to win this match

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01:34hello uh first one for elena uh you are on a five-month

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01:47you've got a brilliant record what is it about playing this tournament that that

01:54helps you find that level and helps you find those wins

01:56I honestly didn't know about the statistics I think uh uh well it's good that uh the statistics

02:11that level and helps you find those wins I honestly didn't know about the statistics I think

02:17well it's good that the statistics is positive and hopefully it's going to be this week the same

02:26but it's really important to play again for your country for sure and it's a big motivation

02:34also pressure at the same time but I'm really happy to be with the team here and yeah hopefully

02:41we can get the win a question for the captain you mentioned your opponents it's it's hard to

02:47predict who might play for them who they might nominate to play how do you prepare to face a

02:54team when they're they kind of change who's who represents them in singles quite often

02:59um well on the tour you know we know all the players and basically it's um all the girls who

03:06play a lot of times against each other so it's um we knew the changes uh in advance so this was not

03:15like really surprised so like I said like I said you know the girls played many many times against

03:21each other so um we can watch some uh matches of our openings of course and we talk to the coaches

03:30so basically it's not a big deal um and a question um for Anna um I wonder what do you what is the best

03:39part about being part of this team and having these weeks on the tour when you can be part of a team

03:45join up with the girls um considering the rest of the year is maybe a bit more individual

03:49no for me I mean even playing doubles you know I always I always love a team aspect of a competition

03:57so it's yeah it's always fun for me to come together as a team uh we all have uh you know like a good

04:04relationship with the with the girls and it's always fun and it's uh extra special to represent your

04:09country so it's uh and yeah it's very nice and yeah we're ready to compete and uh yeah I just enjoy

04:16it so much it just means playing for uh something a bit bigger than just yourself and yeah it's such

04:23an honor and I really enjoy it so I and I hope we I'm sure we can do very well

04:28uh hi um question for Anna you you had a you've had great season you you you got a one one title

04:43from WTA 500 and also you you got deeper level uh through different tournament but it's all play

04:49like singles I do want to know like how are you going to help this team to to win the matches during

04:55this this tournament definitely I will try to focus on singles then we see who's going to play doubles

05:03but I think it's important for me to try to get a win in singles then yeah I think we have chances

05:12the team is really strong and we'll see how it's going to go um because it's upcoming the china

05:20season so after this is baking and all different cities uh how do you feel like to be back in china

05:26again and uh because you know you've got a lot of fans in china as well um they they they they all they

05:31have given nickname today they call you kind of like a beauty so they really like your not just outlook

05:36your your performance as well but what's your reply to all the chinese fans their their attention to to

05:41to you yeah thank you so much of course uh i feel the support and it's always nice to be back i missed

05:48the uh chinese swing last last year so i'm really happy to be back and enjoying my time here and uh

05:55thanks again to all the fans for supporting and also uh we do i do want you to to comment about this

06:02chinese team because we got we got xing we we got we got different players you might see in different

06:07tournaments how do you see how do you see this this chinese team and and if it's if it's possible in

06:12the future you guys come to against each other uh well i didn't look that far ahead i think it's

06:18important to focus on uh each team for now we're playing against uh you say and i think the chinese

06:27team is pretty strong too and they have all the chances to go far um is this uh your first time come to

06:33shenzhen how do you feel about the city the outlook and and and how do you feel so far i've been here

06:38before i think in 2019 and the city is pretty nice i didn't get a chance yet to go around this time but

06:45from the last time i remember it's a big city a lot of things going on and it's nice to explore

06:53thank you and also the question about the comments about the chinese team i do want to ask you as well

06:58thank you so thank you yeah the team china team chen thank you well uh i would say the same like

07:06elena you know it's a strong team you know but in the moment we are focused on the team usa and

07:13i guess all the teams here are strong that's why they are final and final round and i wish

07:19uh china team good luck and uh hopefully we we're gonna meet in the other stage uh sorry but in the

07:30moment we focus on the team usa thank you good luck

07:36another question

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