2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Play-offs

The Play-offs of the 2009 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II were the final stages of the Group II Zonal Competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Those that placed first and second in their respective pools competed for promotion, while those that placed third were automatically relegated down to Group III.

Placing	Pool A	Pool B
1	Latvia	South Africa
2	Portugal	Georgia
3	Morocco	Turkey

Promotional Play-Offs

The first placed teams of each pool were placed against the second placed teams of the other pools. The winner of the rounds advanced to the Group I for next year.

Latvia vs. Georgia

Latvia 3	Attaleya Shine Tennis Club, Antalya, Turkey 25 April 2009 Decoturf II (outdoors)		Georgia 0
1 2 3 1 Irina Kuzmina Sofia Shapatava 6 3 6 4     2 Anastasija Sevastova Anna Tatishvili 0 6 6 1 6 4   3 Līga Dekmeijere / Diāna Marcinkēviča Manana Shapakidze / Sofia Shapatava 6 1 6 2

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Portugal vs. South Africa

Portugal 2	Attaleya Shine Tennis Club, Antalya, Turkey 22 April 2009 Decoturf II (outdoors)		South Africa 0
1 2 3 1 Neuza Silva Lizaan Du Plessis 6 2 6 3     2 Michelle Larcher de Brito Natalie Grandin 6 4 6 3     3           not played

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Final Placements

Placing	Teams
Promoted	Latvia	Portugal
Third	Georgia	South Africa
Relegated	Morocco	Turkey

•  Latvia and  Portugal advanced to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I for the next year. Both teams placed last in their respective pools, meaning that they both competed in the relegation play-offs. However, the Latvians won their tie while the Portuguese lost, meaning the latter team was relegated back to Group II for 2011.^[3][4]
•  Morocco and  Turkey were relegated down to Europe/Africa Zone Group III for the next year. Both teams placed first in their respective pools, and ended up winning their promotional play-off ties, meaning they advanced back to Group II for 2011.^[5][6]

See also

• Fed Cup structure

References

External links

• Fed Cup website