Lesotho at the 2000 Federation Cup

Lesotho at the 2000 Fed Cup marked its debut entry in the Fed Cup. Lesotho was pooled in the ‘D’ category of the Group II of the Europe/Africa Zone. Official care-taker for Lesotho team for the Fed Cup is known as the Lesotho Lawn Tennis Association. Being a starter, it was very difficult for the team to cope with the international tennis pressure and proficiency.

Lesotho at the 2000 Fed Cup was a Group II ‘D’ pool team in the Europe/Africa Zone and played in all the Round Robin games against the various pool ‘D’ fellow teams.

In the first game Lesotho had a tough fight from Portugal and it landed up losing all the three matches that were played and the game ended in a score of 0-3. In the next Round Robin, they met Estonia and once again lost with a shameful score of 0-3. Anyway in the third round they tried getting back in the game and managed to vanquish Madagascar in one match of the three. Unfortunately the overall score-line was 1-2 and Lesotho had once again lost the game. The fourth Round Robin was contested amidst Moldova and Lesotho. Moldova downright defeated Lesotho with a score of 0-3. The last and the final Round Robin was played against Algeria and once again Lesotho was crushed with a score of 0-1.

The performance of Lesotho at the 2000 Fed Cup was not good. Lesotho was a debutant team and required a lot more patience, practice and devotion towards the game. They could have performed better if they were focused and had tried their best. Lesotho was a weak team and hence could barely manage a marginal show at the 2000 Fed Cup tournament.