2000 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Knockout Stage

The Knockout Stage of the 2000 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 in their respective pools.

Placing	Pool A	Pool B	Pool C	Pool D
1	Netherlands	Hungary	Belarus	Israel
2	Bulgaria	South Africa	Slovenia	Luxembourg
3	Sweden	Greece	Romania	Ukraine
4	Turkey	Portugal	Poland	Great Britain
5			Morocco	Finland

The four teams were then randomly drawn into a two-stage knockout tournament, with the winner advancing to the World Group Play-offs next year.

Draw

	Semifinals 20 May					Final 21 May
		Netherlands	2
		Israel	1
							Netherlands	0
							Hungary	2
		Belarus	0
		Hungary	2

Semifinals

Netherlands vs. Israel

Netherlands 2	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 20 May 2000 Red clay (outdoors)		Israel 1
1 2 3 1 Amanda Hopmans Hila Rosen 77 62 6 3     2 Seda Noorlander Anna Smashnova 2 6 3 6     3 Amanda Hopmans / Miriam Oremans Tzipora Obziler / Hila Rosen 6 0 3 6 6 4

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Belarus vs. Hungary

Belarus 0	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 20 May 2000 Red clay (outdoors)		Hungary 2
1 2 3 1 Nadejda Ostrovskaya Anna Földényi 3 6 4 6     2 Olga Barabanschikova Rita Kuti-Kis 2 6 0 6     3         not played

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Final

Netherlands vs. Hungary

Netherlands 0	La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain 21 May 2000 Red clay (outdoors)		Hungary 2
1 2 3 1 Miriam Oremans Anna Földényi 2 6 63 77     2 Seda Noorlander Rita Kuti-Kis 0 6 1 6     3         not played

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See also

• Fed Cup structure

References

External links

• Fed Cup website