Italy ‘play with heart’ to reach Billie Jean King Cup Final

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00:00Firstly, obviously you kind of went 1-0 down, but how did you adapt your game plan to get back into the match and come back again?

00:08Well, we know it was a tough tie today.

00:12Ukraine is one of the best teams in this competition, so we knew it was a difficult match.

00:26We know that Kostiuk is a very tough player and Kocereto has to play her best tennis to beat her.

00:37But we know also that we have Paulini, which is showing a great tennis and a great double.

00:47So our team is very confident about my player, but we respect very much our opponent because they play unbelievable tennis.

01:04And the spirit that you bring and the passion, it seems to keep getting you through these matches and getting you to finals in this competition.

01:11The key is my players, they never give up. They refuse to give up.

01:18So I think it's the key to play with the national jacket and play with your heart, with unity and try to focus obviously on the game.

01:32But the most important, try to find the energy on the team, on the bench, on the support.

01:41And it's what have they done in the bus in the difficult moment.

01:47So what next? How are you going to prepare the girls for the final?

01:50Well, first we have to recover and that's the important thing, to find the good energy to represent our country within two days.

02:06So we will recover and study our opponent tomorrow and then fight as they've done always.