The Junior Fed Cup Team finished 13th today in Shepparton, Victoria after beating Uzbekistan 2-1 on the final day of the event. The Singles was tied at 1 rubber all before the Pacific Oceania Doubles Team of Ayana Rengiil and Mulan Kamoe won the deciding doubles 76,62
Earlier in the tournament Patrick O’Rourke, the ITF Representative writes that ” in pool play the Pacific Oceania team scored an excellent win over the Philippines 2-1 to finish 3rd in their pool. They then moved to the play offs for the 9th to 16th place. In the first Play off match they lost 3-0 to Korea. This then pitted them against Sri Lanka.
In a change from the normal order the # 1 players took the court first as the Sri Lankan player had to leave to represent her country in Fed Cup this week. Tammy Ackerman faced her and fought hard but went down 7-5 6-1. Mulan Kamoe then played the other singles and was too steady winning 6-3 6-4 levelling the tie at one match all. Team captain Andrew Mailtorok went with his experienced doubles pair of Mulan Kamoe and Ayana Rengil for the deciding match. They started well racing to a 4-1 lead and then never looked back taking the match 6-3 6-1 to give Pacific Oceania their second victory of the competition.
Australia and New Zealand are the other Oceania Nations competing against 13 from Asia in both the Junior Davis Cup and Junior Fed Cup with the top four qualifying for the world finals in Madrid in September. Australia has reached the final of both competitions. The boys will face top seeds Japan and the girls will play Chinese Taipei. The New Zealand Fed Cup girls upset two seeded teams to reach the semifinals before losing 2-1 to Chinese Taipei. They also qualify for Madrid. The New Zealand boys beat India to be in the Play off for 5th place.
