2008 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II

Main article: 2008 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone

The European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2008.

In the European and African Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.

Participating teams

•   Algeria
•   Cyprus
•   Denmark
•   Egypt
•   Finland
•   Greece
•   Hungary
•   Ireland
•   Luxembourg
•   Monaco
•   Morocco
•   Portugal
•   Slovenia
•   South Africa
•   Tunisia
•   Ukraine

Draw

	Play-offs					First round					Second round					Third round
						Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg (indoor hard)
						1	Luxembourg	0
	Hanko, Finland (clay)										Johannesburg, South Africa (hard)
							Denmark	5
	1	Luxembourg	2								Denmark		0
						Helsinki, Finland (indoor hard)
	7	Finland	3								South Africa		5
						7	Finland	1
																Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay)
							South Africa	4
																	South Africa	3
						Algiers, Algeria (clay)
																5	Monaco	2
						3	Hungary	2
	Thessaloniki, Greece (clay)										Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay)
							Algeria	3
	3	Hungary	5									Algeria	0
						Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay)
		Greece	0								5	Monaco	5
						5	Monaco	3
							Greece	2
						Cherkasy, Ukraine (indoor hard)
							Egypt	0
	Cairo, Egypt (clay)										Dublin, Ireland (grass)
						6	Ukraine	5
		Egypt	3								6	Ukraine	3
						Dublin, Ireland (indoor carpet)
	4	Morocco	2									Ireland	2
							Ireland	3
																Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (indoor hard)
						4	Morocco	2
																6	Ukraine	5
						Nicosia, Cyprus (hard)
																2	Portugal	0
							Cyprus	3
	Tunis, Tunisia (clay)										Porto, Portugal (clay)
						8	Slovenia	2
	8	Slovenia	4									Cyprus	0
						Estoril, Portugal (clay)
		Tunisia	1								2	Portugal	5
							Tunisia	1
						2	Portugal	4

• Luxembourg, Greece, Morocco, and Tunisia relegated to Group III in 2009.
• South Africa and Ukraine promoted to Group I in 2009.

First round matches

Luxembourg vs. Denmark

Luxembourg 0	National Tennis Centre, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 11–13 April 2008 hard (indoors)		Denmark 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 Roman Margoulis Frederik Nielsen 3 6 1 6 2 6       2 Philippe Grandjean Martin Pedersen 5 7 6 3 1 6 1 6     3 Philippe Grandjean  /  Tom Maquel Frederik Nielsen  /  Rasmus Nørby 1 6 3 6 0 6       4 Philippe Grandjean Rasmus Nørby 3 6 1 6         5 Roman Margoulis Martin Pedersen 2 6 2 6

Finland vs. South Africa

Finland 1	Tali Tennis Center, Helsinki, Finland 11–13 April 2008 hard (indoors)		South Africa 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Juho Paukku Kevin Anderson 0 6 4 6 65 77       2 Jarkko Nieminen Rik de Voest 6 4 6 3 7 5       3 Henri Kontinen  /  Jarkko Nieminen Jeff Coetzee  /  Wesley Moodie 6 4 1 6 4 6 2 6     4 Jarkko Nieminen Kevin Anderson 6 4 3 6 1 6 3 6     5 Henri Kontinen Rik de Voest 6 4 4 6 3 6

Algeria vs. Hungary

Algeria 3	Office du Complexe Olympique Mohamed Boudiaf Tennis Club, Algiers, Algeria 11–13 April 2008 clay (outdoors)		Hungary 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Slimane Saoudi Kornél Bardóczky 1 6 4 6 3 6       2 Lamine Ouahab Sebő Kiss 1 6 4 6 6 4 6 1 7 5   3 Lamine Ouahab  /  Slimane Saoudi Kornél Bardóczky  /  Róbert Varga 4 6 3 6 5 7       4 Lamine Ouahab Kornél Bardóczky 6 1 4 6 3 6 6 3 6 2   5 Slimane Saoudi Sebő Kiss 77 64 4 6 6 0 6 3

Monaco vs. Greece

Monaco 3	Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune Cap Martin, France 11–13 April 2008 clay (outdoors)		Greece 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Jean-René Lisnard Alexandros Jakupovic 6 3 6 1 6 1       2 Benjamin Balleret Konstantinos Economidis 6 3 3 6 61 77 5 7     3 Guillaume Couillard  /  Jean-René Lisnard Konstantinos Economidis  /  Alexandros Jakupovic 3 6 5 7 3 6       4 Jean-René Lisnard Konstantinos Economidis 2 6 4 6 77 64 6 0 6 0   5 Benjamin Balleret Alexandros Jakupovic 6 3 6 1 7 5

Ukraine vs. Egypt

Ukraine 5	Selena Tennis Club, Cherkasy, Ukraine 11–13 April 2008 hard (indoors)		Egypt 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sergiy Stakhovsky Karim Maamoun 6 1 6 3 6 1       2 Sergey Bubka Sherif Sabry 6 1 77 64 2 6 6 0     3 Sergey Bubka  /  Sergiy Stakhovsky Karim Maamoun  /  Sherif Sabry 64 77 6 1 6 4 6 2     4 Artem Smirnov Sherif Sabry 6 3 6 3         5 Ivan Sergeyev Mahmoud Ezz 6 3 6 4

Ireland vs. Morocco

Ireland 3	Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin, Ireland 11–13 April 2008 carpet (indoors)		Morocco 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Louk Sorensen Mounir El Aarej 6 3 2 6 6 4 6 2     2 Conor Niland Younes El Aynaoui 4 6 4 6 2 6       3 James Cluskey  /  Colin O'Brien Rabie Chaki  /  Reda El Amrani 6 1 5 7 6 2 64 77 4 6   4 Louk Sorensen Younes El Aynaoui 3 6 6 4 77 65 6 4     5 Conor Niland Mounir El Aarej 77 64 1 6 66 78 6 3 6 0

Cyprus vs. Slovenia

Cyprus 3	National Tennis Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 11–13 April 2008 hard (outdoors)		Slovenia 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Photos Kallias Marko Tkalec 3 6 3 6 1 6       2 Marcos Baghdatis Blaž Kavčič 6 4 6 3 6 4       3 Marcos Baghdatis  /  Photos Kallias Luka Gregorc  /  Grega Žemlja 77 64 4 6 6 2 4 6 6 1   4 Marcos Baghdatis Marko Tkalec 6 4 6 4 6 4       5 Photos Kallias Blaž Kavčič 1 6 1 6

Portugal vs. Tunisia

Portugal 4	Clube de Tenis do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal 11–13 April 2008 clay (outdoors)		Tunisia 1
1 2 3 4 5 1 Rui Machado Walid Jallali 6 1 6 1 7 5       2 Frederico Gil Malek Jaziri 6 3 6 4 6 3       3 Gastão Elias  /  Leonardo Tavares Walid Jallali  /  Malek Jaziri 6 3 6 3 6 3       4 Gastão Elias Walid Jallali 5 7 2 6         5 Leonardo Tavares Slah Mbarek 6 2 6 4

Play-offs

Finland vs. Luxembourg

Finland 3	Hanko Tennis Stadion, Hanko, Finland [1] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Luxembourg 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Timo Nieminen Gilles Müller 1 6 4 6 2 6       2 Jarkko Nieminen Philippe Grandjean 6 0 6 1 6 0       3 Henri Kontinen  /  Jarkko Nieminen Laurent Bram  /  Gilles Müller 6 2 79 67 77 64       4 Harri Heliövaara Gilles Müller 4 6 5 7 1 6       5 Henri Kontinen Laurent Bram 6 1 6 3 6 3

Greece vs. Hungary

Greece 0	Thessaloniki Tennis Club, Thessaloniki, Greece [2] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Hungary 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 Konstantinos Mikos Sebő Kiss 1 6 3 6 0 6       2 Charalampos Kapogiannis Kornél Bardóczky 2 6 2 6 4 6       3 Charalampos Kapogiannis  /  Konstantinos Mikos Kornél Bardóczky  /  Róbert Varga 1 6 1 6 1 6       4 Konstantinos Mikos Dénes Lukács 1 6 2 6         5 Charalampos Kapogiannis Sebő Kiss 1 6 2 6

Egypt vs. Morocco

Egypt 3	Heliopolis Sporting Club, Cairo, Egypt [3] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Morocco 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sherif Sabry Talal Ouahabi 2 6 62 77 3 2       retired 2 Karim Maamoun Reda El Amrani 2 6 2 6 711 69 6 4 6 4   3 Karim Maamoun  /  Sherif Sabry Reda El Amrani  /  Mehdi Ziadi 67 79 7 5 4 6 5 7     4 Mohamed Mamoun Reda El Amrani 4 6 2 6 4 6       5 Karim Maamoun Mehdi Ziadi 6 4 77 61 6 3

Tunisia vs. Slovenia

Tunisia 1	Tennis Club de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia [4] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Slovenia 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Malek Jaziri Grega Žemlja 6 3 1 6 6 4 3 6 4 6   2 Walid Jallali Marko Tkalec 3 6 1 6 2 6       3 Haythem Abid  /  Malek Jaziri Marko Tkalec  /  Grega Žemlja 3 6 7 5 77 65 7 5     4 Haythem Abid Blaž Kavčič 3 6 6 3 6 3 5 7 2 6   5 Anis Ghorbel Janez Semrajc 3 6 3 6

Second round matches

South Africa vs. Denmark

South Africa 5	Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa [5] 18–20 July 2008 Hard		Denmark 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Kevin Anderson Martin Pedersen 77 65 7 5 6 2       2 Rik de Voest Frederik Nielsen 6 3 6 2 6 2       3 Jeff Coetzee  /  Rik de Voest Frederik Nielsen  /  Rasmus Nørby 77 63 7 5 4 6 7 5     4 Kevin Anderson Thomas Kromann 6 1 6 3         5 Izak van der Merwe Martin Pedersen 712 610 6 4

Monaco vs. Algeria

Monaco 5	Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France [6] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Algeria 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Jean-René Lisnard Ouassel Hared 715 613 6 3 6 1       2 Benjamin Balleret Slimane Saoudi 3 6 6 3 6 2 6 4     3 Guillaume Couillard  /  Jean-René Lisnard Abdelhak Hameurlaine  /  Slimane Saoudi 6 3 6 2 6 4       4 Clément Morel Slimane Saoudi 6 4 6 1         5 Benjamin Balleret Abdelhak Hameurlaine 6 2 6 4

Ireland vs. Ukraine

Ireland 2	Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin, Ireland [7] 18–20 July 2008 Grass		Ukraine 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Conor Niland Artem Smirnov 6 1 6 2 6 2       2 Colin O'Brien Sergiy Stakhovsky 3 6 3 6 1 6       3 James Cluskey  /  Eoin Heavey Sergey Bubka  /  Sergiy Stakhovsky 3 6 66 78 4 6       4 Conor Niland Sergiy Stakhovsky 6 4 6 4 4 6 67 79 5 7   5 Colin O'Brien Artem Smirnov 6 2 6 2

Portugal vs. Cyprus

Portugal 5	Lawn Tennis Club da Foz, Porto, Portugal [8] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Cyprus 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Frederico Gil George Kallis 6 1 6 1 6 0       2 Rui Machado Photos Kallias 6 4 6 4 7 5       3 Frederico Gil  /  Leonardo Tavares Photos Kallias  /  Demetrios Leontis 6 2 6 1 5 7 6 3     4 Frederico Gil Photos Kallias 6 3 6 2         5 João Sousa Eleftherios Christou 6 3 6 3

Third round matches

Monaco vs. South Africa

Monaco 2	Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France [9] 19–21 September 2008 Clay		South Africa 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Benjamin Balleret Kevin Anderson 79 67 2 6 6 2 3 6 0 6   2 Jean-René Lisnard Rik de Voest 6 4 4 6 5 7 64 77     3 Guillaume Couillard  /  Jean-René Lisnard Jeff Coetzee  /  Izak van der Merwe 6 2 3 6 6 4 6 4     4 Jean-René Lisnard Kevin Anderson 6 3 6 4 77 62       5 Benjamin Balleret Rik de Voest 5 7 2 6 1 6

Ukraine vs. Portugal

Ukraine 5	Megaron Tennis Club, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine [10] 19–21 September 2008 Hard (indoor)		Portugal 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sergiy Stakhovsky Gastão Elias 6 4 77 65 6 4       2 Sergey Bubka Rui Machado 6 3 3 6 77 64 6 4     3 Sergey Bubka  /  Sergiy Stakhovsky Gastão Elias  /  Leonardo Tavares 6 3 6 2 6 4       4 Illya Marchenko João Sousa 6 3 6 3         5 Ivan Sergeyev Leonardo Tavares 78 66 4 6 6 3

References

• Draw

1. "Finland v Luxembourg". daviscup.com.
2. "Greece v Hungary". daviscup.com.
3. "Egypt v Morocco". daviscup.com.
4. "Tunisia v Slovenia". daviscup.com.
5. "South Africa v Denmark". daviscup.com.
6. "Monaco v Algeria". daviscup.com.
7. "Ireland v Ukraine". daviscup.com.
8. "Portugal v Cyprus". daviscup.com.
9. "Monaco v South Africa". daviscup.com.
10. "Ukraine v Portugal". daviscup.com.