Tamara Korpach had the best season of her career and won her first title at the Transylvania Open (a tournament held in Cluj-Napoca), but the athlete expressed her disappointment with the attitude of the German Tennis Federation towards her.

Tamara Korpatch was not called up to the German national team by Billie Jean King

Tamara (73 WTA) is the second-highest singles player from Germany behind Tatiana Maria (56 WTA), but was not called by Barbara Rittner for the Billie Jean King Cup final where she played Laura Siegemund (86 WTA). , Anna Lena-Friedsam (114 WTA), Eva Lis (133 WTA) or Jules Niemeyer (161 WTA).

In an interview with Tennis Magazin, Korpatch explained that it all started with an old problem and that the Federation was using a “cheap excuse”.

“I’m very disappointed with this decision, it’s sad to see players with a lower rating than mine being challenged, but Barbara Rittner claims that I once turned down a nomination in 2022, which is a lie and makes me look really bad.

I was never nominated, which happened when Tatyana Maria withdrew shortly before the match, and the captain wanted to call me.

We spoke on the phone, I told him that I had been waiting for this moment for years, that my big dream was to play for Germany. But then I had breathing problems, my lung function was at 50%, so with a heavy heart I had to cancel everything. If I had been nominated earlier, I would have prepared better and rearranged my schedule.

It feels like I left the team, I’m still accused of it and it’s used as a reason why I wasn’t called up again, but that’s all a cheap excuse from the German FA.

Rainer Schüttler has already warned me that I won’t be called up for the Billie Jean King Cup final tournament in order to keep the same core of the team that was in Croatia and Stuttgart, but I still don’t understand.

My accomplishments are there, but the Federation is still publicly insulting me, why didn’t they consider me until 2022? Rittner told me at the time that if I had played on clay, my favorite surface, I could have been nominated. Six years have passed since that call” – Tamara Korpachquotes Punto De Break.