Belgium has failed to qualify for the semifinals of the Fed Cup. The Belgian team lost by 2-3 against Serbia that will face Russia will now. Yanina Wickmayer and Alison Van Uytvanck lost in the decisive doubles Bojana Jovanovski and Aleksandra Krunic.
Jelena Jankovic was injured for her first match on Sunday and therefore replaced by Aleksandra Krunic. The WTA number 198 could not threaten Yanina. She took the opening game, then Wickmayer won twelve games in a row: 6-1 6-0.
This victory came 2-1 for Belgium was there, but Belgium Kirsten Flipkens could not manage to win this Fed Cup tie : 2-2. The doubles had to call the decision.
Yanina Wickmayer and Alison Van Uytvanck had never played together and so didn’t have any experience in doubles. They did well against Bojana Jovanovski and Aleksandra Krunic. It came to a tiebreak which the Serbs win with 7-2.
In the second set we saw many breaks. Belgium took the set after a tough 6-4, mainly thanks to the 17-year old Van Uytvanck. Wickmayer, however, began to suffer from her back, she received care, but could play her best game like in the both singles matches. The third set went with 6-1 to Jovanovski …

Yanina Wickmayer speaks to the media after her second round win at the Moorilla Hobart International.

Yanina also won her second round match at Hobart, easily putting aside local favourite Casey Dellacqua.
Yanina broke her opponent’s serve five times on her way to a 6-1 6-1 victory in just over an hour.
Next up is Romanian Simona Halep (WTA 57), over whom she holds a 2-0 lifetime record.

As a final preparation for the Australian Open, Yanina is at Hobart this week. She is the top seed at the tournament.
She kicked off her Hobart campaign with a 7-5 6-4 victory over Marina Erakovic from New Zealand. Next up is crowd favourite Casey Dellacqua, the world number 134. Dellacqua has been in the world’s top 40 back in 2008, but saw several seasons at the tour shortened by a strike of injuries, which saw her ranking drop. That second round match is scheduled for Tuesday 7 pm local time.

Yanina was never in trouble in her first competitive match since a back injury forced her out of the US Open last September. She needed just over an hour to get past Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-4.
The key thing, however, was that she wasn’t troubled by back pains. “I’m happy about the way I felt today,” she admitted. Her next match, against Italian Sara Errani, is scheduled on Wednesday and will prove to be a test – both in view of the opponent (“she makes you work for every point”) and, logically, of her back. “I’m coming back from a long injury and really happy to be able to play without pain. It’s a tough second round for me but everything for me is bonus,” she said.