Argentina at the 2001 Federation Cup

Argentina entered the Fed Cup in the year 1964 and has participated in it for 39 years competing in 111 ties. Gabriela Sabatini and Florencia Labat made the most number of total wins and the latter won the total number of singles ties playing for most number of years and competing in most number of ties. The most doubles wins have been made by Gabriela Sabatini and Patricia Tarabini. The best doubles team comprises Mercedes Paz and Gabriela Sabatini. Argentina’s reaching the semifinals in 1986 and 1993 is its best performance so far. Argentina at the 2001 Federation Cup played at the World Group play offs and in the round robin of World Group pool A.

Argentina at the 2001 Federation Cup played a total five ties from the World Group play offs and the pool A round robin of World Group. It faced Japan at the World Group Play off first round and defeated it with the score line 4-1. The next was the quarterfinal of the World Group play off in which it defeated Germany 4-1. With this it entered the round robin ties of World Group pool A. In the first World Group play off Russia gave Argentina a hard blow of grounding it with 0-3 score. The second round robin tie put Czech Republic at odds with Argentina in which it won the tie 2-1. The last tie was against France. France defeated Argentina. Argentina managed to make just one winning game. The score was 1-2.

The performance of Argentina at the 2001 Federation Cup was good as it won three ties out of the five in the World Group. From the overall performance was Argentina was judged to be fit to play in the World Group in the Fed Cup of 2002 from the World Group.