Pakistani women’s tennis team wins final group tie against Bangladesh by 3-0

It’s a great news for Pakistani sports lovers that Pakistani women’s tennis team wins final group tie against Bangladesh by 3-0 at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia during FED Cup Asia Oceania Group-II.According to press release issued by the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) that Pakistan women’s tennis team won its final group tie by beating Bangladesh 3-0 on 21st June, during the FED Cup Asia Oceania Group-II being held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 19th to 23rd June, 2019. Fed Cup is the premier international team competition in women’s tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The competition was known as the Federation Cup until 1995. The Fed Cup is the world’s largest annual women’s international team sports competition in terms of the number of nations that compete.

The current Fed Cup Chairperson is Katrina Adams.The men’s equivalent of the Fed Cup is the Davis Cup. Australia, Czech Republic and the United States are the only countries that have held both the Fed Cup and Davis Cup at the same time. Regional qualifying competitions emerged in time for the 1992 and, in 1995; the Federation Cup used a new format and shortened its name to the Fed Cup. The home-and-away format trialed by the Davis Cup was adopted for the Fed Cup so that women could play for their country in their own country. There have been a number of smaller changes to the format since 1995.

The current format, introduced in 2005, incorporates an eight Nation World Group I and eight nations World Group II both playing home-and-away over three weekends throughout the year. Three regional groups compete and there are promotions and relegations based on results. As Groups I, II and III are played in a round robin format in all three zones, each event takes place at a single venue over one week. These are held in the first half of the year (to allow promotion of teams to the World Group II Play-Off ties in second half of the year), and dates and venues are decided by the Fed Cup Committee.