2008 Fed Cup Americas Zone

The Americas Zone is one of three zones of regional competition in the 2008 Fed Cup.

Group I

*Venue: Club Deportivo El Rodeo, Medellín, Colombia (clay)
*Date: Week of 28 January

The seven teams were divided into two pools, one pool of four teams (Pool A) and one pool of three teams (Pool B). The winners of each pool play each other in promotion play-off, winner advancing to the World Group II Play-offs. The nation finishing third in each pool play each other in relegation play-off, loser being relegated to Americas Group II in 2009. The nation finishing fourth in Pool A was relegated to Americas Group II in 2009.

Pools

7TeamRR-2Group43
title-a=Pool A
team-1a-abbrev=BRA
team-1a=fed|BRA (3-0)
team-2a-abbrev=PUR
team-2a=fed|PUR (2-1)
team-3a-abbrev=PAR
team-3a=fed|PAR (1-2)
team-4a-abbrev=URU
team-4a=fed|URU (0-3)

color-row-1a= | 1v2a=2-1 |1v3a=3-0 |1v4a=2-1
color-row-2a= |2v1a=1-2 | 2v3a=3-0 |2v4a=3-0
color-row-3a= |3v1a=0-3 |3v2a=0-3 | 3v4a=3-0
color-row-4a= |4v1a=1-2 |4v2a=0-3 |4v3a=0-3

title-b=Pool B
team-1b-abbrev=COL
team-1b=fed|COL (2-0)
team-2b-abbrev=CAN
team-2b=fed|CAN (1-1)
team-3b-abbrev=MEX
team-3b=fed|MEX (0-2)

color-row-1b= | 1v2b=2-1 |1v3b=3-0
color-row-2b= |2v1b=1-2 | 2v3b=3-0
color-row-3b= |3v1b=0-3 |3v2b=0-3

Play-offs

FedCupbox3
team1=Colombia
team2=Brazil
venue= Club Deportivo El Rodeo, Medellín, Colombia
date=02 February 2008
surface=clay
score1=3
score2=0
R1= TennisMatch3 |T1P1=Mariana Duque Marino |7 |6 | |T2P1=Maria Fernanda Alves |5 |0 |
R2= TennisMatch3 |T1P1=Catalina Castaño |6 |5 |6 |T2P1=Teliana Periera |2 |7 |3
R3= TennisMatch3 |T1P1=Viky Nuñez Fuentes |T1P2=Mariana Duque Marino |6 |2 |6|T2P1=Ana Clara Duarte |T2P2=Fernanda Hermenegildo |2 |6 |4 |
*Colombia promoted to World Group II Playoffs.

*Mexico and Uruguay relegated to Americas Group II in 2009.

Group II

*Venue: Country Club Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia (clay)
*Date: 23-26 April

Pools

6TeamRR-2Group
title-a=Pool A
team-1a-abbrev=CHI
team-1a=fed|CHI (2-0)
team-2a-abbrev=CUB
team-2a=fed|CUB (1-1)
team-3a-abbrev=PAN
team-3a=fed|PAN (0-2)

color-row-1a= | 1v2a=2-1 |1v3a=3-0
color-row-2a= |2v1a=1-2 | 2v3a=3-0
color-row-3a= |3v1a=0-3 |3v2a=0-3

title-b=Pool B
team-1b-abbrev=BOL
team-1b=fed|BOL (2-0)
team-2b-abbrev=ECU
team-2b=fed|ECU (1-1)
team-3b-abbrev=HON
team-3b=fed|HON (0-2)

color-row-1b= | 1v2b=3-0 |1v3b=3-0
color-row-2b= |2v1b=0-3 | 2v3b=3-0
color-row-3b= |3v1b=0-3 |3v2b=0-3

7TeamRR-2Group34
title-a=Pool C
team-1a-abbrev=VEN
team-1a=fed|VEN (2-0)
team-2a-abbrev=GUA
team-2a=fed|GUA (1-1)
team-3a-abbrev=BAR
team-3a=fed|BAR (0-2)

color-row-1a= | 1v2a=2-1 |1v3a=3-0
color-row-2a= |2v1a=1-2 | 2v3a=3-0
color-row-3a= |3v1a=0-3 |3v2a=0-3

title-b=Pool D
team-1b-abbrev=BAH
team-1b=fed|BAH (3-0)
team-2b-abbrev=DOM
team-2b=fed|DOM (2-1)
team-3b-abbrev=TRI
team-3b=fed|TRI (1-2)
team-4b-abbrev=BER
team-4b=fed|BER (0-3)

color-row-1b= | 1v2b=3-0 |1v3b=2-1 |1v4b=3-0
color-row-2b= |2v1b=0-3 | 2v3b=3-0 |2v4b=3-0
color-row-3b= |3v1b=1-2 |3v2b=0-3 | 3v4b=3-0
color-row-4b= |4v1b=0-3 |4v2b=0-3 |4v3b=0-3

Play-offs

*Bahamas and Venezuela promoted to Americas Group I in 2009.

ee also

*Fed Cup structure