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Andorra at the 2006 Davis Cup

Introduction

The 2006 Davis Cup was the most important tournament in the world of men�s tennis. It was the 95th edition of this prestigious tournament. 16 teams competed in the World Group and a total of 125 nations in other groups. 10th to 12th February saw the first round matches while the final took place from 1st to 3rd December at Moscow, Russia. Andorra at the 2006 Davis Cup competed with other teams in the Europe/Africa zone. This nation was included in the group III of this zone. The team of Andorra at the Cup was as follows:

Jean - Baptiste Poux - Gautier
Hector Hormigo
Axel Rabanai
Paul Gerbaud - Farras

Countries at the 2006 Davis Cup

A total of 16 nations took part in the group III of the Europe/Africa zone matches. However, the group was divided in to two venues. The first venue included teams like Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Monaco and Turkey. The second venue comprised teams like Botswana, Cote D�lvoire, Denmark, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Tunisia.

Participation and Performance of Andorra in the 2006 Davis Cup

In the round robin tournament, Andorra played against Lithuania. However in the first set of matches, Andorra had to face a terrible defeat. Players from Lithuania proved to be far better than the contenders from Andorra and won all the three matches while Andorra landed losing all the three. Competitors from Andorra were defeated in straight sets by the rival team. The next country that Andorra played against in the round robin tournament was Armenia. Out of the three matches, one match yielded a good result for Andorra whereas the remaining two matches were won by Armenia. Even in the third set of matches in the round robin tournament, players from Andorra displayed a poor performance and lost all the three games to Estonian competitors.

Thus, at the end of the round robin tournaments, Andorra stood in the bottom two of its group and was sent to compete in the 5th to 8th play offs. Even in the play off matches, Andorra did not improve on its performance and lost all the matches except one. However, this one game was not enough for the nation to maintain its place in the group. Having stood at the last position, Andorra was relegated.
At the end of all the rounds, Andorra at the 2006 Davis Cup stood at the last position in its group and was relegated to group IV for the 2007 tournament.