2000 Fed Cup Americas Zone

The Americas Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 2000 Fed Cup.

Group I edit

Venue: Santinho Coast, Florianópolis, Brazil (outdoor clay)
Date: 25–30 April

The ten teams were divided into two pools of five teams. The teams that finished first in the pools played-off to determine which team would partake in the World Group play-offs next year. The two nations coming last in the pools were relegated to Group II for 2001.

Pools edit

	Pool A	CAN	VEN	BRA	URU	CHI
1	Canada (4–0)		2–1	3–0	3–0	3–0
2	Venezuela (3–1)	1–2		2–1	3–0	3–0
3	Brazil (2–2)	0–3	1–2		2–1	3–0
4	Uruguay (1–3)	0–3	0–3	1–2		3–0
5	Chile (0–4)	0–3	0–3	0–3	0–3

	Pool B	ARG	COL	MEX	PAR	CUB
1	Argentina (4–0)		3–0	3–0	3–0	3–0
2	Colombia (3–1)	0–3		2–1	3–0	3–0
3	Mexico (2–2)	0–3	1–2		3–0	3–0
4	Paraguay (1–3)	0–3	0–3	0–3		2–1
5	Cuba (0–4)	0–3	0–3	0–3	1–2

Play-off edit

Canada
1

Santinho Coast, Florianópolis, Brazil
18 April 2000
Red clay (outdoors)

Argentina
2

		1	2
1	Jana Nejedly Gisela Dulko	6 3	7 5
2	Sonya Jeyaseelan María Emilia Salerni	4 6	5 7
3	Maureen Drake / Sonya Jeyaseelan Laura Montalvo / María Emilia Salerni	1 6	3 6

^[1]

Argentina advanced to 2001 World Group play-offs.^[2]
Chile and Cuba relegated to Group II in 2001.^[3]^[4]

Group II edit

Venue: Maya C.C., La Libertad, El Salvador (outdoor clay)
Date: 9–13 May

The fourteen teams were randomly divided into two pools of four and two pools of three teams to compete in round-robin competitions. The play-off stage of the group was used to determine placings. The top two teams from each pool would be drawn in a knockout stage to determine which teams would be promoted, while the remaining teams played-off to determine the other placings.

Pools edit

	Pool A	DOM	TRI	BAR
1	Dominican Republic (2–0)		2–1	3–0
2	Trinidad and Tobago (1–1)	1–2		2–1
3	Barbados (0–2)	0–3	1–2

	Pool B	ECU	BAH	PAN	ATG
1	Ecuador (3–0)		3–0	3–0	3–0
2	Bahamas (2–1)	0–3		3–0	3–0
3	Panama (1–2)	0–3	0–3		2–1
4	Antigua and Barbuda (0–3)	0–3	0–3	1–2