{"id":2231,"date":"2015-05-01T02:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2015-05-01T02:19:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:19:03","slug":"pacific-oceania-davis-cup-team-makes-the-promotionrelegation-play-offs-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-davis-cup-team-makes-the-promotionrelegation-play-offs-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team Makes the Promotion\/Relegation Play-Offs in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In an action packed day in Isa Town in the Kingdom of Bahrain the Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team defeated Jordan 2-1 in a top-of-the-table clash in Pool A and as a result will progress to the promotion\/relegation Play Offs commencing tomorrow (Saturday) with their likely opponent the United Arab Emirates<\/p>\n<p>But not before the Pacific Oceania team had to fight to secure this win. First on court was Cyril Jacobe and after a 1 hr 49min rubber he finally prevailed in 3 sets\u00a036 62 63 to give Pacific Oceania an important start and lead in the Tie. With a 53% 1st serve percentage and 5 double faults he at times struggled to dominate the match but his experience was shown in important times of the match after being down a set, converting 8 of 14 break point chances<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMG_2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_2012-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then Seif Adas levelled the tie for Jordan in another tough three-set match, defeating Heve Kelley 76(4) 06 64. This 2hr 23min match saw Heve Kelley win overall more points than his opponent (102 vs 95) but only converted 5 of 11 break point chances to his opponent&#8217;s 4 of 6 and in the final result, this proved crucial.<\/p>\n<p>Then in the deciding doubles the class team of Brett Baudinet and Daniel Llarenas, now unbeaten in 9 consecutive doubles matches in 2014 and 2015 were in a league of their own beating the\u00a0Jordanian duo Mousa Alkotop and Tareq Talal Shkakwa in a decisive 61, 62 win to seal the overall victory for Pacific Oceania 2-1 in 53 minutes without dropping serve and winning 5 of their 6 break point chances with an impressive 81% 1st serve percentage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Results-Day-4.pdf\">Results Day 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Doubles-and-coach-Tuesday.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Doubles and coach Tuesday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Doubles-and-coach-Tuesday-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The final results in Pool A are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bahrain-DC-Gr.IV-Group-A.pdf\">Bahrain DC Gr.IV &#8211; Group A<\/a> and the results in Pool B with one round to go are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bahrain-DC-Gr.IV-Group-B.pdf\">Bahrain DC Gr.IV &#8211; Group B<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an action packed day in Isa Town in the Kingdom of Bahrain the Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team defeated Jordan 2-1 in a top-of-the-table clash in Pool A and as a result will progress to the promotion\/relegation Play Offs &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-davis-cup-team-makes-the-promotionrelegation-play-offs-in-bahrain\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team Makes the Promotion\/Relegation Play-Offs in Bahrain<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}