Kazakhstan at the 2001 Federation Cup

The Federation Cup originated in the year 1963 as the International Tennis Federation was celebrating its 50th anniversary. The 2001 Federation Cup was the 39th edition of the most spectacular sporting events in the history of the women’s tennis. There were about 90 teams which took part in this competition and Kazakhstan at the 2001 Federation Cup was one of them. Kazakhstan began its Fed Cup campaign in the year 1995 and this year they are appearing for the 6th time.

Kazakhstan at the 2001 Federation Cup was in the Asia/Oceania group I along with the teams like China, Chinese Taipei, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Pacific Oceania, South Korea, Thailand and Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan had a very poor start in this competition as they lost all its round robins matches. In the first match China defeated Kazakhstan by the score of 3:0, and then in the second match Uzbekistan also defeated Kazakhstan by the same score of 3:0. In the third and the fourth match as well Chinese Taipei and Thailand trounced Kazakhstan by the same score of 3:0. All the teams had no trouble at all as they won their matches with ease. So as to a very disgusting presentation in this group by Kazakhstan, they were relegated to the group II for the 2002 Fed Cup.

The overall performance of Kazakhstan at the 2001 Federation Cup was repulsive as they did not even win a single game out of the four matches they played. This was one of Kazakhstan’s poorest performances in this competition and therefore they were demoted from group I to group II for the next year’s tournament.