1997 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II

Main article: 1997 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone

The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1997.

In the Europe/Africa Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group II advanced to the Europe/Africa Zone Group I. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group II, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group III in 1998. ^[1]

Participating nations

•   Belarus
•   Egypt
•   Finland
•   Georgia
•   Ghana
•   Greece
•   Ireland
•   Ivory Coast
•   Latvia
•   Lithuania
•   Nigeria
•   Norway
•   Poland
•   Portugal
•   Slovenia
•   Yugoslavia

Draw

Relegation Play-offs

First Round

Second Round

Third Round

Snarøya, Norway (clay)

Norway

5

Tbilisi, Georgia (clay)

Nova Gorica, Slovenia (clay)

Nigeria

0

Nigeria

0

Norway

4

Tbilisi, Georgia (clay)

Georgia

5

Slovenia

1

Georgia

2

Porto, Portugal (clay)

Slovenia

3

Norway

3

Cairo, Egypt (clay)

Portugal

2

Egypt

0

Cairo, Egypt (clay)

Porto, Portugal (clay)

Portugal

5

Egypt

3

Portugal

3

Vilnius, Lithuania (indoor carpet)

Lithuania

2

Yugoslavia

2

Yugoslavia

3

Lithuania

2

Abidjan, Ivory Coast (hard)

Latvia

0

Jūrmala, Latvia (clay)

Bytom, Poland (clay)

Ivory Coast

5

Latvia

4

Ivory Coast

1

Poznań, Poland (clay)

Ghana

1

Poland

4

Ghana

0

Helsinki, Finland (indoor hard)

Poland

5

Poland

2

Dublin, Ireland (indoor hard)

Finland

3

Ireland

1

Dublin, Ireland (carpet)

Tampere, Finland (clay)

Belarus

4

Ireland

4

Belarus

2

Helsinki, Finland (indoor hard)

Greece

1

Finland

3

Greece

2

Finland

3

•   Nigeria,   Lithuania,   Ghana, and   Greece relegated to Group III in 1998.
•   Norway and   Finland promoted to Group I in 1998.

First round

Norway vs. Nigeria

Norway 5	Snarøya Tennis Club, Snarøya, Norway [2] 2–4 May 1997 Clay		Nigeria 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Jan Frode Andersen Sule Ladipo 6 1 6 0 6 4       2 Christian Ruud Ganiyu Adenekan 6 0 6 1 6 0       3 Helge Koll-Frafjord  /  Christian Ruud Ganiyu Adenekan  /  Sule Ladipo 6 2 4 6 6 1 77 65     4 Christian Ruud Dickson Ogu 6 0 6 0         5 Thomas Heyerdahl Ganiyu Adenekan 7 5 6 3

Georgia vs. Slovenia

Georgia 2	Leila Meskhi Tennis Academy, Tbilisi, Georgia [3] 2–4 May 1997 Clay		Slovenia 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Vladimir Margalitadze Iztok Božič 2 6 3 6 1 6       2 Vladimir Gabrichidze Borut Urh 6 3 7 5 1 6 3 6 6 4   3 Vladimir Gabrichidze  /  David Katcharava Marko Por  /  Borut Urh 66 78 5 7 77 62 2 6     4 Vladimir Margalitadze Borut Urh 2 6 2 6 0 6       5 Vladimir Gabrichidze Andrej Kraševec 4 6 77 62 6 2

Egypt vs. Portugal

Egypt 0	Gezira Sporting Club, Cairo, Egypt [4] 2–4 May 1997 Clay		Portugal 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 Gehad El Deeb Nuno Marques 0 6 4 6 65 77       2 Amr Ghoneim Emanuel Couto 6 2 4 6 5 7 3 6     3 Adli El Shafei  /  Amr Ghoneim Emanuel Couto  /  Bernardo Mota 5 7 1 6 0 6       4 Amr Ghoneim João Cunha e Silva 4 6 3 6         5 Gehad El Deeb Emanuel Couto 4 6 5 7

Lithuania vs. Yugoslavia

Lithuania 2	Karolina Tennis Club, Vilnius, Lithuania [5] 2–4 May 1997 Carpet (indoors)		Yugoslavia 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Rolandas Muraška Nenad Zimonjić 3 6 1 6 3 6       2 Eugenius Cariovas Bojan Vujić 63 77 64 77 2 6       3 Eugenius Cariovas  /  Rolandas Muraška Dušan Vemić  /  Nenad Zimonjić 4 6 4 6 4 6       4 Rolandas Muraška Bojan Vujić 7 5 6 4         5 Eugenius Cariovas Vladimir Pavićević 77 65 4 6 6 3

Ivory Coast vs. Latvia

Ivory Coast 5	Hôtel Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast [6] 2–4 May 1997 Hard		Latvia 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Claude N'Goran Ivo Lagzdiņš 6 1 6 2 6 0       2 Clément N'Goran Raimonds Sproga 6 4 6 0 6 2       3 Claude N'Goran  /  Clément N'Goran Ivo Lagzdiņš  /  Raimonds Sproga 6 1 6 2 7 5       4 Ilou Lonfo Raimonds Sproga 6 1 6 2         5 Valentin Sanon Oskars Vaskis 6 4 6 4

Poland vs. Ghana

Poland 5	Olimpia Tennis Club, Poznań, Poland [7] 2–4 May 1997 Clay		Ghana 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Bartłomiej Dąbrowski Daniel Omaboe 6 0 6 2 6 2       2 Filip Anioła Franklyn Ofori 6 1 6 3 6 0       3 Bartłomiej Dąbrowski  /  Bernard Kaczorowski Nortey Dowuona  /  Franklyn Ofori 6 1 6 2 77 65       4 Krystian Pfeiffer Nortey Dowuona 6 1 6 1         5 Filip Anioła Alexander Ofori 6 1 6 0

Ireland vs. Belarus

Ireland 1	Riverview Club, Dublin, Ireland [8] 2–4 May 1997 Hard (indoors)		Belarus 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Scott Barron Max Mirnyi 2 6 3 6 6 4 4 6     2 Owen Casey Alexander Shvets 6 2 4 6 6 3 4 6 7 5   3 Scott Barron  /  Tom Hamilton Max Mirnyi  /  Vladimir Voltchkov 4 6 65 77 3 6       4 Scott Barron Alexander Shvets 1 6 2 6 64 77       5 Eoin Collins Max Mirnyi 5 7 3 6

Finland vs. Greece

Finland 3	Tali Tennis Centre, Helsinki, Finland [9] 2–4 May 1997 Hard (indoors)		Greece 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Tuomas Ketola Anastasios Vasiliadis 2 6 6 1 78 66 4 6 4 6   2 Kim Tiilikainen Konstantinos Economidis 77 64 5 7 4 6 1 6     3 Tuomas Ketola  /  Ville Liukko Konstantinos Economidis  /  Anastasios Vasiliadis 6 3 78 66 6 4       4 Ville Liukko Konstantinos Economidis 6 3 6 4 6 4       5 Kim Tiilikainen Anastasios Vasiliadis 6 3 77 63 77 63

Second round

Slovenia vs. Norway

Slovenia 1	Perla Stadium, Nova Gorica, Slovenia [10] 11–13 July 1997 Clay		Norway 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Iztok Božič Christian Ruud 6 4 2 6 4 6 3 6     2 Blaž Trupej Jan Frode Andersen 6 4 4 6 3 6 1 6     3 Andrej Kraševec  /  Marko Por Helge Koll-Frafjord  /  Christian Ruud 6 2 6 3 5 7 1 6 6 2   4 Iztok Božič Jan Frode Andersen 3 6 6 1 3 6 2 6     5 Blaž Trupej Christian Ruud 4 6 4 6

Portugal vs. Yugoslavia

Portugal 3	Maia Tennis Complex, Porto, Portugal [11] 11–13 July 1997 Clay		Yugoslavia 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 João Cunha e Silva Nenad Zimonjić 2 6 6 4 6 4 6 4     2 Emanuel Couto Bojan Vujić 3 6 5 7 7 5 2 6     3 Emanuel Couto  /  Bernardo Mota Nebojša Đorđević  /  Nenad Zimonjić 6 4 6 4 6 4       4 João Cunha e Silva Bojan Vujić 4 6 3 6 6 3 6 4 3 6   5 Emanuel Couto Nenad Zimonjić 62 77 7 5 7 5 6 3

Poland vs. Ivory Coast

Poland 4	Górnik Sports Club, Bytom, Poland [12] 11–13 July 1997 Clay		Ivory Coast 1
1 2 3 4 5 1 Michał Chmela Claude N'Goran 4 6 7 5 2 6 77 64 4 6   2 Bartłomiej Dąbrowski Jean-Christophe Nabi 77 61 6 1 6 4       3 Bartłomiej Dąbrowski  /  Michał Gawłowski Ilou Lonfo  /  Claude N'Goran 6 4 79 67 3 6 6 2     4 Bartłomiej Dąbrowski Claude N'Goran 6 4 6 1 6 0       5 Michał Chmela Nouhoun Sangaré 6 1 6 2

Finland vs. Belarus

Finland 3	Rosendahl Tennis Centre, Tampere, Finland [13] 11–13 July 1997 Clay		Belarus 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Tuomas Ketola Vladimir Voltchkov 3 6 6 3 65 77 1 6     2 Tommi Lenho Alexander Shvets 7 5 6 1 4 6 4 6 6 3   3 Tuomas Ketola  /  Ville Liukko Alexander Shvets  /  Vladimir Voltchkov 3 6 6 4 6 1 6 1     4 Kim Tiilikainen Alexander Shvets 66 78 6 1 7 5 66 78 6 0   5 Ville Liukko Vladimir Voltchkov 1 6 6 4 5 7

Relegation play-offs

Georgia vs. Nigeria

Georgia 5	Leila Meskhi Tennis Academy, Tbilisi, Georgia [14] 11–14 July 1997 Clay		Nigeria 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 David Katcharava Ganiyu Adenekan 6 1 6 2 6 1       2 Vladimir Gabrichidze Sule Ladipo 6 3 6 2 6 3       3 Vladimir Gabrichidze  /  David Katcharava Ganiyu Adenekan  /  Sule Ladipo 68 710 6 3 6 2 7 5     4 Givi Samkharadze Sule Ladipo 6 3           retired 5 Vladimir Gabrichidze Ganiyu Adenekan 6 1 6 2

Egypt vs. Lithuania

Egypt 3	Gezira Sporting Club, Cairo, Egypt [15] 11–14 July 1997 Clay		Lithuania 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Gehad El Deeb Rolandas Muraška 6 4 4 6 2 6 0 6     2 Amr Ghoneim Eugenius Cariovas 3 6 6 2 77 65 6 4     3 Amr Ghoneim  /  Hisham Hemeda Eugenius Cariovas  /  Rolandas Muraška 77 61 77 64 4 6 77 64     4 Amr Ghoneim Rolandas Muraška 1 6 6 3 6 4 3 6 3 6   5 Hisham Hemeda Eugenius Cariovas 6 2 77 64 65 77 5 7 11 9

Latvia vs. Ghana

Latvia 4	National Tennis Center Lielupe, Jūrmala, Latvia [16] 11–13 July 1997 Clay		Ghana 1
1 2 3 4 5 1 Ģirts Dzelde Gunther Darkey 6 2 6 1 6 1       2 Andris Fiļimonovs Franklyn Ofori 6 1 6 2 6 2       3 Ģirts Dzelde  /  Andris Fiļimonovs Franklyn Ofori  /  Isaac Tetteh-Quaye 6 1 6 1 6 0       4 Ģirts Dzelde Franklyn Ofori 65 77 4 6         5 Andris Fiļimonovs Gunther Darkey 6 3 6 2

Ireland vs. Greece

Ireland 4	Riverview Club, Dublin, Ireland [17] 11–13 July 1997 Carpet		Greece 1
1 2 3 4 5 1 Owen Casey Solon Peppas 6 1 6 1 6 0       2 Scott Barron Konstantinos Economidis 6 2 6 2 3 6 2 6 4 6   3 Scott Barron  /  Owen Casey Konstantinos Economidis  /  Nikos Rovas 6 2 6 3 6 2       4 Scott Barron Solon Peppas 6 3 6 0 6 1       5 Owen Casey Konstantinos Economidis 6 1 6 4

Third round

Portugal vs. Norway

Portugal 2	Maia Tennis Complex, Porto, Portugal [18] 19–21 September 1997 Clay		Norway 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Nuno Marques Jan Frode Andersen 5 7 1 6 6 1 3 6     2 Emanuel Couto Christian Ruud 1 6 1 6 1 6       3 Emanuel Couto  /  Bernardo Mota Helge Koll-Frafjord  /  Christian Ruud 6 4 77 61 4 6 6 2     4 Nuno Marques Christian Ruud 61 77 65 77 62 77       5 Bernardo Mota Helge Koll-Frafjord 6 2 6 3

Finland vs. Poland

Finland 3	Tali Tennis Centre, Helsinki, Finland [19] 19–21 September 1997 Hard (indoors)		Poland 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Ville Liukko Bartłomiej Dąbrowski 6 4 5 7 5 7 1 6     2 Tuomas Ketola Michał Chmela 6 3 2 6 6 2 4 6 4 6   3 Tuomas Ketola  /  Ville Liukko Michał Chmela  /  Bartłomiej Dąbrowski 77 64 69 711 6 0 4 6 6 3   4 Tuomas Ketola Bartłomiej Dąbrowski 77 64 6 1 77 64       5 Ville Liukko Michał Chmela 3 6 3 6 6 4 6 3 6 4

References

1. "1997 Europe/Africa Group II". DavisCup.com. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
2. "Norway v Nigeria". daviscup.com.
3. "Georgia v Slovenia". daviscup.com.
4. "Egypt v Portugal". daviscup.com.
5. "Lithuania v Yugoslavia". daviscup.com.
6. "Ivory Coast v Latvia". daviscup.com.
7. "Poland v Ghana". daviscup.com.
8. "Ireland v Belarus". daviscup.com.
9. "Finland v Greece". daviscup.com.
10. "Slovenia v Norway". daviscup.com.
11. "Portugal v Yugoslavia". daviscup.com.
12. "Poland v Ivory Coast". daviscup.com.
13. "Finland v Belarus". daviscup.com.
14. "Georgia v Nigeria". daviscup.com.
15. "Egypt v Lithuania". daviscup.com.
16. "Latvia v Ghana". daviscup.com.
17. "Ireland v Greece". daviscup.com.
18. "Portugal v Norway". daviscup.com.
19. "Finland v Poland". daviscup.com.

External links

• Davis Cup official website