Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Europe/Africa Zone Group I 2008, 2nd Round Play-Offs

Belarus d. Georgia 3-0
Belarus remains at Europe/Africa Zone Group I in 2009.
Geogia relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group II 2009.

Venue: Republic Olympic Training Center for Tennis, Minsk
Stadium Capacity: 1232 seats
Dates: 19 September - 21 September 2008
Day 1: 1000 hrs ( 0700 hrs GMT) tbc
Day 2: 1000 hrs ( 0700 hrs GMT) tbc
Day 3: 1000 hrs ( 0700 hrs GMT) tbc
Surface: Hard (Acrylic) - Outdoors
Ball Type: Slazenger Championship All Court


Belarus
Max Mirnyi
Uladzimir Ignatik
Andrei Karatchenia
Dzmitry Zhyrmont
Captain: Vladimir Voltchkov

Georgia
Irakli Labadze
Lado Chikladze
Nodar Itonishvili
George Khrikadze
Captain: Vladimer Gabrichidze

R1 - U.IGNATIK (BLR) def. L.CHIKHLADZE (GEO)
6-3 6-2 6-4
R2 - A.KARATCHENIA (BLR) def. I.LABADZE (GEO)
7-6(5) 3-6 2-6 7-5 6-3
R3 - S.BETAU / M.MIRNYI (BLR) def. L.CHIKHLADZE / I.LABADZE (GEO)
6-3 3-0 - Retired
R4 - U.IGNATIK (BLR) def. N.ITONISHVILI (GEO)
6-4 Played and abandoned
R5 - S.BETAU (BLR) v G.KHRIKADZE (GEO)
Not played



Tie details: http://www.daviscup.com/ties/tie.asp?tie=100010189


Head to head: first meeting
new head to head: Belarus leads Georgia 1-0

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Belarus
Max Mirnyi
Uladzimir Ignatik
Andrei Karatchenia
Dzmitry Zhyrmont
Captain: Vladimir Voltchkov

Georgia
Irakli Labadze
Lado Chikladze
Nodar Itonishvili
George Khrikadze
Captain: Vladimer Gabrichidze

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

:o I'd prefer to see Voltchkov playing and not Mirnyi :help:

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Voltchkov is the coach? :o

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

yes, it was announced after DC against Poland that Voltchkov would be a captian during the next tie

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

:D

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Mirnyi vs Labadze What a fight:haha::retard:

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

R1: Uladzimir IGNATIK v Lado CHIKHLADZE
R2: Andrei KARATCHENIA v Irakli LABADZE
R3: Max MIRNYI/Uladzimir IGNATIK v Irakli LABADZE/Lado CHIKHLADZE
R4: Uladzimir IGNATIK v Irakli LABADZE
R5: Andrei KARATCHENIA v Lado CHIKHLADZE


Sergei Betau will replace Dzmitry Zhyrmont in Belarussian team

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Good choice to have Betau over Zhyrmont.

And good to see Mirnyi not in singles :lol:

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Ignaitik-Chikhladze match started about 5 PM local instead of 10 AM because of rain delay
and the weather forecast for tomorrow also looks bad :awww: cold and rain :awww:

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

GL Georgia :bigclap:

Why Kukhlashvili is not there? :rolleyes:

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Ask Leila Meskhi Nathi. :rolleyes: :o She chooses only the players she likes, did you ever see our fedcup team this year? :rolleyes: #1-6 didn't play.

But I think Itonishvili is better than Kukhalashvili, but Nodar's grandfather died a few days ago as far as I know, so I doubt he wants to be in Belarus and play.

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Ask Leila Meskhi Nathi. :rolleyes: :o She chooses only the players she likes, did you ever see our fedcup team this year? :rolleyes: #1-6 didn't play.

But I think Itonishvili is better than Kukhalashvili, but Nodar's grandfather died a few days ago as far as I know, so I doubt he wants to be in Belarus and play.

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

Ignatik 6:2, 6:3, 6:4 :yeah:

Re: Europe/Africa Zone Group I Play-Offs: Georgia at Belarus (September 19-21, 2008)
 

and because of rain the match between Karatchenia and Labadze was postponed till 10AM tomorrow