1997 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I – Knockout Stage

The Knockout Stage of the 1997 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I was the final stage of the Zonal Competition involving teams from the Americas. Those that qualified for this stage placed first and second in their respective pools.

Placing	Pool A	Pool B
1	Canada	Colombia
2	Brazil	Peru
3	Ecuador	Chile
4	Mexico	Venezuela
5		Puerto Rico

The four teams were then randomly drawn into a two-stage knockout tournament, with the winner advancing to the World Group II Play-offs.

Draw edit

Semifinals 3 May			Final 4 May

	Canada	3

	Peru	0
				Canada	2

				Colombia	1
	Brazil	0

	Colombia	3

Semifinals edit

Canada vs. Peru edit

Canada
3

Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile
3 May 1997
Red clay (outdoors)

Peru
0

		1	2
1	Rene Simpson Carla Rodríguez	6 0	6 2
2	Patricia Hy Nanely Vallejo	6 1	6 1
3	Sonya Jeyaseelan / Rene Simpson Carla Rodríguez / Nanely Vallejo	6 0	6 4

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Brazil vs. Colombia edit

Brazil
0

Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile
3 May 1997
Red clay (outdoors)

Colombia
3

		1	2	3
1	Eugenia Maia Carmiña Giraldo	5 7	6 4	5 7
2	Vanessa Menga Fabiola Zuluaga	1 6	3 6
3	Joana Cortez / Luciana Tella Carmiña Giraldo / Fabiola Zuluaga	2 6	1 6

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Final edit

Canada vs. Colombia edit

Canada
2

Club Palestino, Santiago, Chile
4 May 1997
Red clay (outdoors)

Colombia
1

		1	2
1	Rene Simpson Carmiña Giraldo	6 2	7 5
2	Patricia Hy Fabiola Zuluaga	3 6	1 6
3	Sonya Jeyaseelan / Rene Simpson Carmiña Giraldo / Fabiola Zuluaga	6 1	7 5

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Canada advanced to the World Group II Play-offs, where they were drawn against Slovakia. However, they lost 0–5, and thus returned to the Americas Zone Group I in 1997.^[4]

References edit

^ "Canada v Peru". fedcup.com.
^ "Brazil v Colombia". fedcup.com.
^ "Canada v Colombia". fedcup.com.
^ "Slovakia v Canada". fedcup.com.

External links edit

Fed Cup website

[1] "Canada v Peru". fedcup.com.

[2] "Brazil v Colombia". fedcup.com.

[3] "Canada v Colombia". fedcup.com.

[4] "Slovakia v Canada". fedcup.com.

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