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Bosnia Herzegovina 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. Bosnia Herzegovina 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 playe4rs in the team of Bosnia Herzegovina were as follows:

 
  • Ivan DODIG
  • Aleksandar MARIC
  • Bojan VUJIC
  • Sinisa Markovic


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 Bosnia Herzegovina in the 2006 Davis Cup

Bosnia Herzegovina at the 2006 Davis Cup competed in the group B of the round robin leg of the tournament. The matches were played at the Teniski Klub 'Mladost', Banja Luka, Bosnia/Herzegovina. Bosnia Herzegovina played three sets of matches on the 19th, 20th and the 21st of July. Moldova was the opponent for the 19th July matches. The players from Bosnia Herzegovina proved to be far better than those from Moldova and won two of the total three matches. Then, on the 20th, Bosnia Herzegovina played against Monaco. This time however, competitors from Monaco completely dominated the three matches and won them all. In the third set of matches against Turkey on the 21st, Bosnia Herzegovina players once again put up a weak show and won just a single match as against two won by the opponent team. Thus, after the round robin leg of the event, Bosnia Herzegovina stood third in its group and advanced to the 5th to 8th position play offs. In the play off matches, the first set against Moldova was not played.

However in the second set, athletes from Bosnia Herzegovina burst out on court once again top prove their mettle. Against Armenia, Bosnia Herzegovina won all the three matches and against Andorra, two matches were won. Thus, having won a total of 3 sets of matches, Bosnia Herzegovina at the 2006 Davis Cup stood at the fifth position in its group.
On the whole, performance of Bosnia Herzegovina at the 2006 Davis Cup was satisfactory


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