{"id":3798,"date":"2018-02-05T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T21:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2018-02-05T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T21:30:34","slug":"pacific-oceania-fed-cup-players-arrive-in-bahrain-for-fed-cup-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-fed-cup-players-arrive-in-bahrain-for-fed-cup-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Oceania Fed Cup Players Arrive in Bahrain For Fed Cup This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Oceania Fed Cup Team of Abigail Tere-Apisah(PNG), Steffi Carruthers (SAM), Carol Lee (NMI) and Captain, Gilles de Gouy (TAH) have arrived in Isa Town, Bahrain for the 2018 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Asia\/Oceania Zone Group II Tie commencing tomorrow, Tuesday 6th February.<\/p>\n<p>14 nations will be competing with the list of Nations and their ranking accessible\u00a0 here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/AOII.pdf\">AOII<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Draw will take place today, Monday 5 February , after the Captains\u2019 Meeting at the K Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The four top seeded nations will be placed in Pool A, Pool B, Pool C and Pool D:<\/p>\n<p>Pool A (3 teams)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Uzbekistan<\/strong> \u2013 33 (Nation Ranking)<\/p>\n<p>Pool B (3 teams)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Philippines<\/strong> \u2013 48<\/p>\n<p>Pool C (4 teams)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Malaysia<\/strong> &#8211; 55<\/p>\n<p>Pool D (4 teams)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Indonesia<\/strong> &#8211; 56<\/p>\n<p>The remaining Nations will be drawn in groups of four Nations in the following order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Singapore <\/strong>&#8211; 58<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pacific Oceania <\/strong>&#8211; 61<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sri Lanka <\/strong>&#8211; 66<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Zealand <\/strong>&#8211; 71<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then\u00a0the last six Nations will be drawn together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Iran<\/strong> &#8211; 80<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pakistan<\/strong> &#8211; 83<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kyrgyzstan<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; 89<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bahrain<\/strong> &#8211; 101<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lebanon <\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; no ranking<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Oman <\/strong>&#8211; no ranking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winners of each pool will play off against each other (A1 vs C1) and (B1 vs D1) to determine which 2 Nations will advance to the Asia\/Oceania Zone Group 1 in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In the positional play-off Nations will compete in the following order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A2 vs C2 and B2 vs D2<\/li>\n<li>A3 vs C3 and B3 vs D3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Oceania Fed Cup Team of Abigail Tere-Apisah(PNG), Steffi Carruthers (SAM), Carol Lee (NMI) and Captain, Gilles de Gouy (TAH) have arrived in Isa Town, Bahrain for the 2018 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Asia\/Oceania Zone Group II Tie &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-fed-cup-players-arrive-in-bahrain-for-fed-cup-this-week\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacific Oceania Fed Cup Players Arrive in Bahrain For Fed Cup This Week<\/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\/3798"}],"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=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}