Sri Lanka women’s team for Fed Cup in Bahrain

Sri Lanka’s women’s tennis team will travel to Bahrain for this year’s Fed Cup, the Annual World Cup of women’s international tennis and for the 2018 Asia-Oceania Zone Group II tournaments. The matches will be held at the Bahrain Tennis Federation hard courts in Isa Town, Bahrain from 6 to 10 February.

Sri Lanka team comprise Anika Seneviratne, Nethmi Waduge, Savini Jayasuriya and Janali Manamperi. Dineshkanthan Thangaraja will be the non-playing captain.

Fourteen teams will be participating. They are; Indonesia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, Oman, Pacific Oceania (region), Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka and Bahrain.

The format will be on a round-robin basis. Teams will be divided into two pools of three teams each (Pools A and B) and two pools of four teams each (Pools C and D). The winners of each pool will play against each other (A1 vs C1 and B1 vs D1) to determine which two nations will advance to the Asia-Oceania Zone Group I in 2019.

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