2021 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group III

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The Africa Zone was the unique zone within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2021. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Cairo, Egypt, from 11 to 14 August 2021.

Participating nations

•  Algeria
•  Benin
•  Egypt
•  Ghana
•  Kenya
•  Mozambique
•  Rwanda

Withdrawn nations

•  Madagascar

Draw

Date: 11–18 August 2021

Location: Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt (clay)

Format: Round-robin basis. Two pools – one of four teams and one of three teams – and nations will play each team once in their group. Nations finishing in the top two of each group will play-off for promotion, with the winner of Group A facing the runner-up of Group B, and the winner of Group B facing the runner-up of Group A.

The two teams finishing third in their groups will enter a relegation play-off, with the beaten team joining the team finishing fourth in contesting Africa Group IV in 2022.

Seeding

Pot	Nation	Rank1	Seed
1	Egypt	67	1
	Kenya	70	2
2	Mozambique	83	3
	Algeria	85	4
3	Benin	94	5
	Ghana	96	6
	Rwanda	99	7

• ¹Davis Cup Rankings as of 8 March 2021

Round Robin

Pool A

		EGY	BEN	ALG	RR W–L	Set W–L	Game W–L	Standings
1	Egypt		2–1	3–0	5–1	11–2 (85%)	76–47 (62%)	1
5	Benin	1–2		2–1	3–3	7–8 (47%)	62–73 (46%)	2
4	Algeria	0–3	1–2		1–5	3–11 (21%)	54–72 (43%)	3

Pool B

		KEN	MOZ	RWA	GHA	RR W–L	Set W–L	Game W–L	Standings
2	Kenya		3–0	3–0	3–0	8–1	16–3 (84%)	111–45 (71%)	1
3	Mozambique	0–3		2–1	3–0	6–3	13–7 (65%)	90–64 (58%)	2
7	Rwanda	0–3	1–2		3–0	4–5	9–12 (43%)	86–98 (47%)	3
6	Ghana	0–3	0–3	0–3		0–9	2–17 (11%)	36–113 (24%)	4

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	Egypt	3–0	Mozambique
Promotional	Benin	2–1	Kenya
Relegation	Algeria	3–0	Rwanda
Relegation	—		Ghana

Round Robin

Pool A

Egypt vs. Benin

Egypt 2	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[1] 11 August 2021 Clay		Benin 1
1 2 3 1 Amr Asrawy Delmas N'Tcha 6 2 6 0     2 Mohamed Safwat Alexis Klégou 77 62 6 2     3 Adham Gaber / Sherif Makhlouf Alexis Klégou / Delmas N'Tcha 6 4 2 6 65 77

Algeria vs. Benin

Algeria 1	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[2] 12 August 2021 Clay		Benin 2
1 2 3 1 Youcef Rihane Delmas N'Tcha 6 0 3 6 6 1   2 Nazim Makhlouf Alexis Klégou 2 6 4 6     3 Nazim Makhlouf / Youcef Rihane Alexis Klégou / Delmas N'Tcha 6 4 4 6 3 6

Egypt vs. Algeria

Egypt 3	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[3] 13 August 2021 Clay		Algeria 0
1 2 3 1 Amr Asrawy Youcef Rihane 6 4 77 63     2 Mohamed Safwat Nazim Makhlouf 6 3 6 3     3 Adham Gaber / Sherif Makhlouf Mohamed Amine Aïssa Khelifa / Aymen Abderrahmene Ali Moussa 6 0 6 4

Pool B

Kenya vs. Rwanda

Kenya 3	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[4] 11 August 2021 Clay		Rwanda 0
1 2 3 1 Albert Njogu Etienne Niyigena 6 1 6 1     2 Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai Bertin Karenzi 77 64 6 2     3 Kevin Cheruiyot / Ibrahim Kibet Yego Junior Joseph Mfashingabo / Joshua Muhire 6 4 6 2

Mozambique vs. Ghana

Mozambique 3	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[5] 11 August 2021 Clay		Ghana 0
1 2 3 1 N/A N/A       w/o   2 N/A N/A       w/o   3 N/A / N/A N/A / N/A       w/o

Kenya vs. Mozambique

Kenya 2	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[6] 12 August 2021 Clay		Mozambique 1
1 2 3 1 Albert Njogu Bruno Nhavene 65 77 4 6     2 Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai Franco Mata 6 1 1 0     retired 3 Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai / Ibrahim Kibet Yego Bruno Nhavene / Jaime Sigauque 6 2 4 6 6 2

Ghana vs. Rwanda

Ghana 0	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[7] 12 August 2021 Clay		Rwanda 3
1 2 3 1 Benjamin Palm Etienne Niyigena 4 6 2 6     2 Japheth Anwasiba Bagerbaseh Bertin Karenzi 6 3 5 7 1 3 retired   3 Samuel Agbesi Osei Antwi / Benjamin Palm Bertin Karenzi / Etienne Niyigena 1 6 6 3 64 77

Kenya vs. Ghana

Kenya 3	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[8] 13 August 2021 Clay		Ghana 0
1 2 3 1 Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai Samuel Agbesi Osei Antwi 6 2 6 0     2 Ibrahim Kibet Yego Benjamin Palm 6 3 0 0     retired 3 Albert Njogu / Ibrahim Kibet Yego Samuel Agbesi Osei Antwi / Benjamin Palm       w/o

Mozambique vs. Rwanda

Mozambique 2	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[9] 13 August 2021 Clay		Rwanda 1
1 2 3 1 Bruno Nhavene Etienne Niyigena 4 6 6 3 6 3   2 Franco Mata Bertin Karenzi 1 6 1 6     3 Franco Mata / Bruno Nhavene Bertin Karenzi / Etienne Niyigena 6 0 6 2

Play-offs

Promotional play-offs

Egypt vs. Mozambique

Egypt 3	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[10] 14 August 2021 Clay		Mozambique 0
1 2 3 1 Amr Asrawy Bruno Nhavene 6 4 6 4     2 Mohamed Safwat Jaime Sigauque 6 1 6 0     3 Adham Gaber / Sherif Makhlouf Armando Sigauque / Jaime Sigauque 6 0 6 1

Kenya vs. Benin

Kenya 1	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[11] 14 August 2021 Clay		Benin 2
1 2 3 1 Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai Delmas N'Tcha 6 4 77 63     2 Ibrahim Kibet Yego Alexis Klégou 5 7 4 6     3 Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai / Ibrahim Kibet Yego Alexis Klégou / Delmas N'Tcha 3 6 3 6

Relegation play-off

Algeria vs. Rwanda

Algeria 3	Smash Tennis Academy, Cairo, Egypt[12] 14 August 2021 Clay		Rwanda 0
1 2 3 1 Mohamed Amine Aïssa Khelifa Joshua Muhire 6 4 6 0     2 Youcef Rihane Bertin Karenzi 6 2 6 2     3 Mohamed Amine Aïssa Khelifa / Aymen Abderrahmene Ali Moussa Junior Joseph Mfashingabo / Joshua Muhire 6 1 6 0

Final placements

Placing	Teams
Promoted/First	Egypt	Benin
Third	Mozambique	Kenya
Fifth	Algeria
Relegated/Sixth	Rwanda
Relegated/Seventh	Ghana

•  Egypt and  Benin were promoted to 2022 Davis Cup World Group II Play-offs.
•  Rwanda and  Ghana were relegated to 2022 Davis Cup Africa Zone Group IV.