2002 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Play-offs

The Play-offs of the 2002 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I Zonal Competition involving teams from Asia and Oceania. Those that qualified for this stage placed first and second in their respective pools.

Placing	Pool A	Pool B
1	Indonesia	China
2	South Korea	Japan
3	Chinese Taipei	Hong Kong
4	New Zealand	Thailand
5	Indonesia	Uzbekistan
6		Philippines

The four teams were then paired up the team from a different placing of the other group for a play-off tie, with the winners being promoted to the World Group Play-offs.

Indonesia vs. China

Indonesia 1	Guangzhou, China 9 March 2002 Plexipave (outdoors)		China 2
1 2 3 1 Angelique Widjaja Zheng Jie 4 6 2 6     2 Wynne Prakusya Li Na 6 4 0 6 2 6   3 Wynne Prakusya / Angelique Widjaja Li Na / Li Ting 4 3       retired

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•  China advanced to the World Group Play-offs, where they were drawn against  Russia. They lost 0–5, and thus were relegated back to Group I for 2003.^[2]

South Korea vs. Japan

South Korea 0	Guangzhou, China 9 March 2002 Plexipave (outdoors)		Japan 3
1 2 3 1 Jeon Mi-ra Rika Fujiwara 4 6 2 6     2 Cho Yoon-jeong Saori Obata 4 6 7 5 2 6   3 Jeon Mi-ra / Kim Mi-ok Akiko Morigami / Yuka Yoshida 6 1 4 6 3 6

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•  Japan advanced to the World Group Play-offs, where they were drawn against  Colombia. However, the Japanese withdrew from their tie citing security concerns over the Colombian armed conflict. Japan was thus relegated down to Group I for 2003.^[4]

See also

• Fed Cup structure

References

External links

• Fed Cup website