2018 Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group III

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The Asia/Oceania Zone was the unique zone within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2018. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Hanoi, Vietnam, from 2 to 7 April 2018. The two winning nations won promotion to Group II, Asia/Oceania Zone, for 2019.

Participating nations

•  Cambodia
•  Jordan
•  Kuwait
•  Malaysia
•  Pacific Oceania
•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Syria
•  Vietnam (Host)

Draw

Date: 2–7 April, 2018

Location: Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam (indoor hard)

Format: Round-robin basis. One pool of 4 teams (Pool A) and one pool of 5 teams (Pool B). The winner of Pool A will play-off against the runner-up of Pool B and the winner of Pool B will play-off against the runner-up of Pool A to determine which two nations will be promoted to Asia/Oceania Zone Group II in 2019.

Seeding

Pot	Nation	Rank1	Seed
1	Vietnam	67	1
	Kuwait	73	2
2	Qatar	86	3
	Malaysia	91	4
3	Syria	92	5
	Pacific Oceania	93	6
4	Jordan	99	7
	Cambodia	103	8
	Saudi Arabia	114	9

• ¹Davis Cup Rankings as of 5 February 2018

Draw

Pool A

		VIE	MAS	CAM	POC	RR W–L	Set W–L	Game W–L	Standings
1	Vietnam		3–0	3–0	2–1	3–0	17–3 (85%)	113–48 (70%)	1
4	Malaysia	0–3		3–0	2–1	2–1	12–9 (57%)	103–95 (52%)	2
8	Cambodia	0–3	0–3		2–1	1–2	6–15 (29%)	77–112 (41%)	3
6	Pacific Oceania	1–2	1–2	1–2		0–3	7–15 (32%)	83–121 (41%)	4

Pool B

		KUW	QAT	SYR	JOR	KSA	RR W–L	Set W–L	Game W–L	Standings
2	Kuwait		2–1	2–1	3–0	3–0	4–0	20–5 (80%)	144–90 (62%)	1
3	Qatar	1–2		3–0	2–1	3–0	3–1	19–8 (70%)	145–102 (59%)	2
5	Syria	1–2	0–3		2–1	2–1	2–2	12–16 (43%)	113–139 (45%)	3
7	Jordan	0–3	1–2	1–2		3–0	1–3	12–16 (43%)	126–128 (50%)	4
9	Saudi Arabia	0–3	0–3	1–2	0–3		0–4	5–23 (18%)	87–156 (36%)	5

Standings are determined by: 1. number of wins; 2. number of matches; 3. in two-team ties, head-to-head records; 4. in three-team ties, (a) percentage of sets won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (b) percentage of games won (head-to-head records if two teams remain tied), then (c) Davis Cup rankings.

Playoffs

Placing	A Team	Score	B Team
Promotional	Vietnam	3–0	Qatar
Promotional	Malaysia	0–2	Kuwait
5th	—		Syria
Relegation	Cambodia	0–3	Saudi Arabia
Relegation	Pacific Oceania	2–1	Jordan

•  Vietnam and  Kuwait promoted to Group II in 2019.
•  Cambodia and  Jordan relegated to Group IV in 2019.

Round Robin

Pool A

Vietnam vs. Pacific Oceania

Vietnam 2	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[1] 3 April Hard (indoor)		Pacific Oceania 1
1 2 3 1 Trịnh Linh Giang Heve Kelley 6 0 6 2     2 Lý Hoàng Nam Matthew Stubbings 6 3 6 1     3 Phạm Minh Tuấn / Lê Quốc Khánh Brett Baudinet / Colin Sinclair 6 1 3 6 3 6

Malaysia vs. Cambodia

Malaysia 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[2] 3 April Hard (indoor)		Cambodia 0
1 2 3 1 Ahmed Deedat Abdul Razak Kim Delton 6 1 6 2     2 Christian Didier Chin Bun Kenny 7 5 3 6 78 66   3 Syed Mohd Agil Syed Naguib / Muhammad-Ashaari bin Zainal-Abidin Kim Delton / Mam Phalkun 6 3 6 2

Vietnam vs. Cambodia

Vietnam 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[3] 4 April Hard (indoor)		Cambodia 0
1 2 3 1 Trịnh Linh Giang Kim Delton 6 0 6 1     2 Lý Hoàng Nam Long Samneang 6 1 6 1     3 Phạm Minh Tuấn / Lê Quốc Khánh Kim Delton / Mam Phalkun 6 1 6 4

Malaysia vs. Pacific Oceania

Malaysia 2	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[4] 4 April Hard (indoor)		Pacific Oceania 1
1 2 3 1 Ahmed Deedat Abdul Razak Matthew Stubbings 77 65 7 5     2 Christian Didier Chin Colin Sinclair 6 3 6 2     3 Syed Mohd Agil Syed Naguib / Muhammad-Ashaari bin Zainal-Abidin Brett Baudinet / Matthew Stubbings 5 7 6 0 4 6

Vietnam vs. Malaysia

Vietnam 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[5] 5 April Hard (indoor)		Malaysia 0
1 2 3 1 Trịnh Linh Giang Christian Didier Chin 6 4 6 0     2 Lý Hoàng Nam Muhammad-Ashaari bin Zainal-Abidin 6 0 6 1     3 Phạm Minh Tuấn / Lê Quốc Khánh Ahmed Deedat Abdul Razak / Syed Mohd Agil Syed Naguib 77 65 4 6 6 4

Pacific Oceania vs. Cambodia

Pacific Oceania 1	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[6] 5 April Hard (indoor)		Cambodia 2
1 2 3 1 Heve Kelley Kim Delton 7 5 2 6 4 6   2 Matthew Stubbings Long Samneang 4 6 0 6     3 Brett Baudinet / Heve Kelley Long Samneang / Mam Phalkun 63 77 6 4 6 4

Pool B

Kuwait vs. Jordan

Kuwait 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[7] 2 April Hard (indoor)		Jordan 0
1 2 3 1 Mohammad Ghareeb Mousa Alkotop 6 4 6 2     2 Abdullah Maqdes Seif Adas 77 61 6 3     3 Mohammad Ghareeb / Abdullah Maqdes Hamzeh Al-Aswad / Mousa Alkotop 6 3 6 2

Qatar vs. Syria

Qatar 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[8] 2 April Hard (indoor)		Syria 0
1 2 3 1 Jabor Al-Mutawa Rabee Sleem 6 1 6 2     2 Mubarak Shannan Zayid Yacoub Makzoume 6 2 2 6 6 3   3 Issa Shanan Al Harrasi / Mousa Shanan Zayed Yacoub Makzoume / Rabee Sleem 6 4 77 63

Kuwait vs. Saudi Arabia

Kuwait 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[9] 3 April Hard (indoor)		Saudi Arabia 0
1 2 3 1 Mohammad Ghareeb Saud Alhaqbani 7 5 6 1     2 Abdullah Maqdes Ammar Alhaqbani 3 6 6 4 6 1   3 Mohammed Ghareeb / Abdullah Maqdes Fahad Al Saad / Faisal Alrebdi 6 3 6 4

Qatar vs. Jordan

Qatar 2	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[10] 3 April Hard (indoor)		Jordan 1
1 2 3 1 Jabor Al-Mutawa Mousa Alkotop 4 6 6 2 6 3   2 Mubarak Shannan Zayid Seif Adas 6 2 6 4     3 Issa Shanan Al Harrasi / Mousa Shanan Zayed Hamzeh Al-Aswad / Mousa Alkotop 5 7 6 4 62 77

Kuwait vs. Qatar

Kuwait 2	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[11] 4 April Hard (indoor)		Qatar 1
1 2 3 1 Mohammad Ghareeb Mousa Shanan Zayed 7 5 6 0     2 Abdullah Maqdes Mubarak Shannan Zayid 61 77 2 6     3 Mohammed Ghareeb / Abdullah Maqdes Mousa Shanan Zayed / Mubarak Shannan Zayid 6 2 7 5

Syria vs. Saudi Arabia

Syria 2	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[12] 4 April Hard (indoor)		Saudi Arabia 1
1 2 3 1 Rabee Sleem Faisal Alrebdi 6 4 6 4     2 Yacoub Makzoume Ammar Alhaqbani 5 7 6 2 3 6   3 Yacoub Makzoume / Rabee Sleem Fahad Al Saad / Ammar Alhaqbani 6 4 3 6 6 2

Kuwait vs. Syria

Kuwait 2	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[13] 5 April Hard (indoor)		Syria 1
1 2 3 1 Mohammad Ghareeb Rabee Sleem 6 1 6 3     2 Abdullah Maqdes Yacoub Makzoume 5 7 4 6     3 Mohammad Ghareeb / Abdullah Maqdes Yacoub Makzoume / Rabee Sleem 6 3 6 1

Jordan vs. Saudi Arabia

Jordan 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[14] 5 April Hard (indoor)		Saudi Arabia 0
1 2 3 1 Mousa Alkotop Saud Alhaqbani 6 0 6 1     2 Seif Adas Ammar Alhaqbani 6 4 3 6 6 4   3 Hamzeh Al-Aswad / Mousa Alkotop Faisal Alrebdi / Saud Alhaqbani 6 2 6 2

Qatar vs. Saudi Arabia

Qatar 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[15] 6 April Hard (indoor)		Saudi Arabia 0
1 2 3 1 Jabor Al-Mutawa Saud Alhaqbani 6 4 6 2     2 Mubarak Shannan Zayid Fahad Al Saad 6 2 6 1     3 Issa Shanan Al Harrasi / Mousa Shanan Zayed Fahad Al Saad / Faisal Alrebdi       w/o

Syria vs. Jordan

Syria 2	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[16] 6 April Hard (indoor)		Jordan 1
1 2 3 1 Rabee Sleem Mousa Alkotop 0 6 0 6     2 Yacoub Makzoume Seif Adas 6 3 6 3     3 Yacoub Makzoume / Rabee Sleem Hamzeh Al-Aswad / Mousa Alkotop 6 4 3 6 6 4

Play-offs

Promotional play-offs

Vietnam vs. Qatar

Vietnam 3	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[17] 7 April Hard (indoor)		Qatar 0
1 2 3 1 Trịnh Linh Giang Jabor Al-Mutawa 6 4 7 5     2 Lý Hoàng Nam Mubarak Shannan Zayid 6 4 77 62     3 Phạm Minh Tuấn / Lê Quốc Khánh Issa Shanan Al Harrasi / Mousa Shanan Zayed 6 3 6 2

Malaysia vs. Kuwait

Malaysia 0	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[18] 7 April Hard (indoor)		Kuwait 2
1 2 3 1 Syed Mohd Agil Syed Naguib Mohammad Ghareeb 3 6 3 6     2 Christian Didier Chin Abdullah Maqdes 6 3 3 6 5 7   3 Muhammad-Ashaari bin Zainal-Abidin / Syed Mohd Agil Syed Naguib Mohammad Ghareeb / Abdullah Maqdes       not played

Relegation play-offs

Cambodia vs. Saudi Arabia

Cambodia 0	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[19] 7 April Hard (indoor)		Saudi Arabia 3
1 2 3 1 Kim Delton Saud Alhaqbani 6 4 1 6 2 6   2 Long Samneang Ammar Alhaqbani 1 6 2 6     3 Long Samneang / Mam Phalkun Ammar Alhaqbani / Saud Alhaqbani         w/o

Jordan vs. Pacific Oceania

Jordan 1	Mỹ Đình Sports Complex, Hanoi, Vietnam[20] 7 April Hard (indoor)		Pacific Oceania 2
1 2 3 1 Mousa Alkotop Heve Kelley 6 3 6 1     2 Seif Adas Matthew Stubbings 5 7 2 6     3 Hamzeh Al-Aswad / Mousa Alkotop Brett Baudinet / Matthew Stubbings 6 2 65 77 4 6