{"id":5564,"date":"2021-09-19T06:47:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T22:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2021-09-19T07:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T23:06:08","slug":"pacific-oceania-davis-cup-team-promoted-to-group-ii-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-davis-cup-team-promoted-to-group-ii-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team Promoted to Group II in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Paci<a>f<\/a>ic Oceania Davis Cup Team have overnight won a thrilling deciding Doubles Match to earn promotion to Group II in 2022 in the 2021 Davis Cup by Rakuten Asia\/Oceania Group III Tie in Amman, <a>J<\/a>ordan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5565\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?attachment_id=5565\" class=\"wp-image-5565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-100x133.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Pacific-Davis-Cup-Team-900x1200.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"> L to R : Heimanarii Lai San (TAH), Clement Mainguy (VAN), Colin Sinclair (NMI), Brett Baudinet (CI), Richard Breen-non playing captain ) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brett Baudinet (CI), playing in his 59th Davis Cup Tie teamed up with Colin Sinclair (NMI) to beat the Syrian Doubles pairing o<a>f<\/a> Kareem AL Alla<a>f<\/a>\/Hazem Naw 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-4. Team Captain Richard Breen said that &#8220;This was the best he had ever seen Brett Baudinet play. He had stepped his game up <a>f<\/a>or this &#8220;must-win&#8221; decider; that there were 2 critical turning points in the <a>f<\/a>inal set; Syria were up a break at 2-1 and serving at 40\/15 with 2 game points but both Colin (playing in the deuce court) and Brett (playing in the backhand court) produced 2 unbelievable and unplayable return o<a>f<\/a> serves to take the game to deuce and then eventually to level at 2-2. Then later in the <a>f<\/a>inal set at 4 games-all and deuce, <a>f<\/a>ollowing a rally o<a>f<\/a> over 20 hits the Syrian player hit a <a>f<\/a>erocious <a>f<\/a>orehand down the tram lines o<a>f<\/a> the court, Colin reached out and just got the tip o<a>f<\/a> his racquet to it and it just dropped over the net to give our team break point which they converted to make the score 5-4.&#8221; They then broke Syria to win the <a>f<\/a>inal and deciding set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/b16f231f-3aa3-482e-a534-cd637b82da4b.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Deciding Tie Point- Kareem Al Alla<a>f<\/a> (SYR) serves a Double <a>F<\/a>ault<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, Clement Mainguy lost the opening singles 6-2, 6-1 to Hazem Naw (SYR) 6-2, 6-1 be<a>f<\/a>ore Colin Sinclair (NMI) levelled the Tie 1-1 with a thrilling 2 hr 40m Singles Match 7-5, 6-7 (7), 6-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paci<a>f<\/a>ic Oceania, Hong Kong China and Vietnam were promoted to Group II in 2022 and Kuwait, Qatar and Sri Lanka were relegated to Group IV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Results_Day-4.pdf\">Final Play Off Scores &#8211; Saturday 18th September<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Play-Offs-1.pdf\">Final Play Off Tie Results &#8211; Saturday 18th September<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team have overnight won a thrilling deciding Doubles Match to earn promotion to Group II in 2022 in the 2021 Davis Cup by Rakuten Asia\/Oceania Group III Tie in Amman, Jordan. Brett Baudinet (CI), playing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/pacific-oceania-davis-cup-team-promoted-to-group-ii-in-2022\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pacific Oceania Davis Cup Team Promoted to Group II in 2022<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/5564"}],"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=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}