Yugoslavia at the 2000 Federation Cup

The participation of Yugoslavia at the 2000 Federation Cup was from the Group II of the Europe/Africa zone, the debut performance of the Yugoslavia team at the competition was in the 1969 Federation Cup. The best performance so far of the team was in 1984 when the team had managed to enter in the semifinals.

Yugoslavia at the 2000 Federation Cup was in the Group II of their zone and had to play the five Round Robin ties, the ties of the team were played from 28th March to 1st April on the outdoor clay surface in Portugal.

The first round of the Yugoslav team was against the team of Georgian and the team won the round by a score of 2-1 and then took on the Cyprus team whom it defeated with a clean sweep of 3-0. The third tie of the Yugoslav team was against the team of Armenia which was not an easy team to play with but the Yugoslavia team had great aggression in their performance and defeated the Armenian team by the score of 3-0. In the fourth round the Yugoslav team played against the team of Lithuania and made them surrender before their stormy performance, the team won the round again by a clean sweep of 3-0. In their fifth round the Yugoslav team had to play against the team of Egypt but the Egyptian team gave a walkover to the Yugoslavia team and thus the Yugoslav team became eligible for the Group I of their zone.

The performance of Yugoslavia at the 2000 Federation Cup was really massive the team tore apart their rivals defenses and emerged as the ultimate winners of their group. The Yugoslavia team also won a promotion in the Group I of their zone for the next year’s competition.