1998 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Knockout Stage

The Knockout Stage of the 1998 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was the final stage of the Zonal Competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Those that qualified for this stage placed first and second in their respective pools.

Placing	Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
1	Belarus	Poland	South Africa	Sweden
2	Greece	Portugal	Romania	Ukraine
3	Slovenia	Great Britain	Latvia	Yugoslavia
4	Israel	Madagascar	Bulgaria	Hungary

The eight teams were then randomly drawn into two two-stage knockout tournaments, with the winners advancing to the World Group II Play-offs.

Draw

	Semifinals 17 April					Finals 18 April
		Belarus	2
		Ukraine	1
							Belarus	2
							South Africa	0
		Portugal	0
		South Africa	3
		Poland	2
		Greece	1
							Poland	2
							Romania	0
		Romania	2
		Sweden	1

Semifinals

Belarus vs. Ukraine

Belarus 2	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 17 April 1997 Red clay (outdoors)		Ukraine 1
1 2 3 1 Olga Barabanschikova Anna Zaporozhanova 6 1 6 1     2 Natasha Zvereva Elena Tatarkova 6 2 6 4     3 Nadejda Ostrovskaya / Tatiana Poutchek Tatiana Kovaltchouk / Olga Teplynska 66 78 4 6

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Portugal vs. South Africa

Portugal 0	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 17 April 1997 Red clay (outdoors)		South Africa 3
1 2 3 1 Cristina Correia Jessica Steck 1 6 3 6     2 Sofia Prazeres Mariaan de Swardt 6 4 2 6 3 6   3 Cristina Correia / Ana Catarina Nogueira Esme De Villiers / Liezel Horn 3 6 2 6

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Poland vs. Greece

Poland 2	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 17 April 1998 Red clay (outdoors)		Greece 1
1 2 3 1 Aleksandra Olsza Eleni Daniilidou 4 6 6 1 6 4   2 Magdalena Grzybowska Christína Papadáki 6 4 6 1     3 Sylwia Rynarzewska / Katarzyna Teodorowicz-Lisowska Eleni Daniilidou / Christína Papadáki 3 6 1 6

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Romania vs. Sweden

Romania 2	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 17 April 1998 Red clay (outdoors)		Sweden 1
1 2 3 1 Alice Pîrșu Kristina Triska 4 6 2 6     2 Raluca Sandu Åsa Carlsson 2 6 6 1 8 6   3 Alice Pîrșu / Raluca Sandu Åsa Carlsson / Kristina Triska 6 3 3 6 6 3

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Finals

Belarus vs. South Africa

Belarus 2	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 18 April 1997 Red clay (outdoors)		South Africa 0
1 2 3 1 Olga Barabanschikova Jessica Steck 77 62 77 64     2 Natasha Zvereva Mariaan de Swardt 4 6 6 4 6 2   3           not played

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•  Belarus advanced to the World Group II Play-offs, where they were drawn against  Venezuela. They won 4–1, and thus proceeded to the 1999 World Group II.^[6]

Poland vs. Romania

Poland 2	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 18 April 1998 Red clay (outdoors)		Romania 0
1 2 3 1 Aleksandra Olsza Alice Pîrșu 7 5 6 1     2 Magdalena Grzybowska Raluca Sandu 7 5 6 1     3           not played

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•  Poland advanced to the World Group II Play-offs, where they were drawn against  Austria. They lost 0–5, and thus fell back to Group I in 1999.^[8]

See also

• Fed Cup structure

References

External links

• Fed Cup website