2017 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III

The Asia/Oceania Zone was the unique zone within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2017. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 17 July to 22 July 2017. The two winning nations won promotion to Group II, Asia/Oceania Zone, for 2018.

Participating nations[]

Draw[]

Date: 17–22 July

Location: Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka (clay)

Format: Round-robin basis. Two pools of four and five teams, respectively (Pools A and B). The winner of each pool plays off against the runner-up of the other pool to determine which two nations are promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2018.

Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 10 April 2017 (shown in parentheses below).

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Sri Lanka (78)  Lebanon (88)	Malaysia (89)  Syria (93)	Pacific Oceania (97)  Qatar (100)	United Arab Emirates (103)  Jordan (104)  Turkmenistan (105)

Pool A[]

		SRI	JOR	POC	SYR	RR W–L	Set W–L	Game W–L	Standings
78	Sri Lanka		2–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	12–6 (67%)	96–66 (59%)	1
104	Jordan	1–2		2–1	2–1	2–1	10–9 (53%)	82–95 (46%)	2
97	Pacific Oceania	1–2	1–2		2–1	1–2	10–11 (48%)	91–91 (50%)	3
93	Syria	1–2	1–2	1–2		0–3	7–13 (35%)	78–95 (45%)	4

Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings.

Pool B[]

		LBN	QAT	MAS	UAE	TKM	RR W–L	Set W–L	Game W–L	Standings
88	Lebanon		3–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	4–0	19–8 (70%)	147–100 (60%)	1
100	Qatar	0–3		2–0	2–1	2–1	3–1	15–12 (56%)	118–111 (52%)	2
89	Malaysia	1–2	0–2		2–1	3–0	2–2	14–11 (56%)	121–100 (55%)	3
103	United Arab Emirates	1–2	1–2	1–2		2–1	1–3	11–17 (39%)	109–142 (43%)	4
105	Turkmenistan	1–2	1–2	0–3	1–2		0–4	9–20 (31%)	111–153 (42%)	5

Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings.

Playoffs[]

Placing	A Team	Score	B Team
Promotional	Sri Lanka	2–0	Qatar
Promotional	Jordan	0–2	Lebanon
5th	N/A		Malaysia
Relegation	Pacific Oceania	2–1	Turkmenistan
Relegation	Syria	2–0	United Arab Emirates

•  Sri Lanka and  Lebanon promoted to Group II in 2018.
•  Turkmenistan and  United Arab Emirates relegated to Group IV in 2018.

Round robin[]

Pool A[]

Sri Lanka vs. Jordan[]

Sri Lanka 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[1] 17 July 2017 Clay		Jordan 1
1 2 3 1 Harshana Godamanna 6 3 6 2     2 6 2 6 4     3  / Harshana Godamanna  /  4 6 5 6   retired

Syria vs. Pacific Oceania[]

Syria 1	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[2] 17 July 2017 Clay		Pacific Oceania 2
1 2 3 1 Yacoub Makzoume 3 6 6 1 2 6   2 Kareem Al Allaf Colin Sinclair 4 6 0 6     3 Yacoub Makzoume /  Brett Baudinet /  6 3 1 6 6 3

Sri Lanka vs. Pacific Oceania[]

Sri Lanka 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[3] 19 July 2017 Clay		Pacific Oceania 1
1 2 3 1 Harshana Godamanna 6 1 6 3     2 Colin Sinclair 4 6 4 6     3  / Harshana Godamanna Brett Baudinet /  6 3 6 1

Syria vs. Jordan[]

Syria 1	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[4] 19–20 July 2017 Clay		Jordan 2
1 2 3 1 Yacoub Makzoume 6 1 6 1     2 Kareem Al Allaf 4 6 5 7     3 Kareem Al Allaf / Yacoub Makzoume  /  4 6 3 6

Sri Lanka vs. Syria[]

Sri Lanka 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[5] 20 July 2017 Clay		Syria 1
1 2 3 1 Harshana Godamanna Yacoub Makzoume 6 1 6 3     2 Kareem Al Allaf 1 6 62 77     3  / Harshana Godamanna Kareem Al Allaf /  6 4 6 1

Pacific Oceania vs. Jordan[]

Pacific Oceania 1	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[6] 20 July 2017 Clay		Jordan 2
1 2 3 1 7 5 1 6 62 77   2 Colin Sinclair 6 1 6 0     3 Brett Baudinet /   /  4 6 4 6

Pool B[]

Lebanon vs. Turkmenistan[]

Lebanon 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[7] 17 July 2017 Clay		Turkmenistan 1
1 2 3 1 Hady Habib 6 0 6 1     2 Giovani Samaha 77 61 6 2     3  /  Aleksandr Ernepesov / Isa Mammetgulyyev 6 3 61 77 4 6

Qatar vs. United Arab Emirates[]

Qatar 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[8] 17 July 2017 Clay		United Arab Emirates 1
1 2 3 1 Jabor Al-Mutawa Omar Alawadhi 6 2 4 6 1 6   2 Mubarak Shannan Zayid 6 2 6 0     3 Mousa Shanan Zayed / Mubarak Shannan Zayid Omar Alawadhi / Hamad Abbas Janahi 6 4 6 4

Lebanon vs. United Arab Emirates[]

Lebanon 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[9] 18 July 2017 Clay		United Arab Emirates 1
1 2 3 1 Abdulrahman Al Janahi 6 1 4 6 6 4   2 Hady Habib Omar Alawadhi 6 3 7 5     3  / Hady Habib  / Hamad Abbas Janahi 3 6 5 7

Malaysia vs. Turkmenistan[]

Malaysia 3	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[10] 18 July 2017 Clay		Turkmenistan 0
1 2 3 1 Mohd Assri Merzuki 6 3 6 1     2 Isa Mammetgulyyev 6 4 3 6 6 2   3 Christian Didier Chin / Mohd Assri Merzuki Aleksandr Ernepesov /  6 1 6 4

Lebanon vs. Malaysia[]

Lebanon 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[11] 19 July 2017 Clay		Malaysia 1
1 2 3 1 Hady Habib Christian Didier Chin 6 2 6 4     2 Giovani Samaha 6 3 77 61     3  /   / Mohd Assri Merzuki 4 6 3 6

Qatar vs. Turkmenistan[]

Qatar 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[12] 19–20 July 2017 Clay		Turkmenistan 1
1 2 3 1 Mousa Shanan Zayed 1 1       retired 2 Mubarak Shannan Zayid Isa Mammetgulyyev 6 3 64 77 6 4   3 Jabor Al-Mutawa / Mousa Shanan Zayed Aleksandr Ernepesov /  4 6 6 4 1 2 retired

Lebanon vs. Qatar[]

Lebanon 3	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[13] 20 July 2017 Clay		Qatar 0
1 2 3 1 Hady Habib Jabor Al-Mutawa 6 1 6 1     2 Giovani Samaha Mubarak Shannan Zayid 1 6 6 4 6 4   3  /  Mousa Shanan Zayed / Mubarak Shannan Zayid       w/o

Malaysia vs. United Arab Emirates[]

Malaysia 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[14] 20 July 2017 Clay		United Arab Emirates 1
1 2 3 1 Mohd Assri Merzuki Hamad Abbas Janahi 6 1 6 1     2 Omar Alawadhi 66 78 6 0 0 6   3 Christian Didier Chin / Mohd Assri Merzuki  / Hamad Abbas Janahi 6 2 6 4

Malaysia vs. Qatar[]

Malaysia 0	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[15] 21 July 2017 Clay		Qatar 2
1 2 3 1 Jabor Al-Mutawa 67 79 6 1 4 6   2 Mohd Assri Merzuki Mubarak Shannan Zayid 3 2     retired   3 Christian Didier Chin / Mohd Assri Merzuki Mousa Shanan Zayed / Mubarak Shannan Zayid       not played

United Arab Emirates vs. Turkmenistan[]

United Arab Emirates 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[16] 21 July 2017 Clay		Turkmenistan 1
1 2 3 1 Omar Alawadhi 6 4 6 3     2 Isa Mammetgulyyev 0 6 2 6     3 Omar Alawadhi / Hamad Abbas Janahi Aleksandr Ernepesov / Isa Mammetgulyyev 6 4 61 77 6 4

Playoffs[]

Promotional playoffs[]

Sri Lanka vs. Qatar[]

Sri Lanka 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[17] 22 July 2017 Clay		Qatar 0
1 2 3 1 Harshana Godamanna Mousa Shanan Zayed 6 3 6 3     2 Mubarak Shannan Zayid 6 4 6 3     3  / Harshana Godamanna Mousa Shanan Zayed / Mubarak Shannan Zayid       not played

Lebanon vs. Jordan[]

Lebanon 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[18] 22 July 2017 Clay		Jordan 0
1 2 3 1 Hady Habib 6 2 6 0     2 Giovani Samaha 6 4 3 6 6 2   3  /   /        not played

Relegation playoffs[]

Pacific Oceania vs. Turkmenistan[]

Pacific Oceania 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[19] 22 July 2017 Clay		Turkmenistan 1
1 2 3 1 Aleksandr Ernepesov 3 6 6 1 4 6   2 Colin Sinclair Isa Mammetgulyyev 4 6 6 3 6 2   3 Brett Baudinet /  Aleksandr Ernepesov /  6 4 6 1

Syria vs. United Arab Emirates[]

Syria 2	Sri Lanka Tennis Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka[20] 22 July 2017 Clay		United Arab Emirates 0
1 2 3 1 Yacoub Makzoume Omar Alawadhi 4 6 6 2 6 3   2 Kareem Al Allaf 6 4 6 2     3 Kareem Al Allaf /  Omar Alawadhi / Hamad Abbas Janahi       not played

References[]

External links[]

• Official Website