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**Meelis** · Feb 3rd, 2009, 10:39 AM

Europe/Africa Zone I

Venue: Coral Tennis Club, Tallinn, Estonia

Surface: Hard - indoors

Dates: 4-7 February

Nations: Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Belarus, Denmark, Luxembourg, Slovenia Bosnia/Herzegovina, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Poland

Format: Round-robin - 15 teams divided into four pools. The four pool winners will play off with the two winning nations advancing to the World Group II Play-offs in April 2009. The nations finishing last in their pool will play-off with the two losing nations being relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2010.

**Meelis** · Feb 3rd, 2009, 10:40 AM

Romanian team:

Sorana Cirstea
Monica Niculescu
Raluca Olaru
Mihaela Buzarnescu

**Meelis** · Feb 3rd, 2009, 10:41 AM

Romania is in group B, together with Sweden, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina.

Petkorazzi · Feb 3rd, 2009, 10:41 AM

Sorana Cirstea
Monica Niculescu
Edina Gallovits
Raluca Olaru

Team

AMAZE!

Edit: Meelis, Edina is out?

Edit: Nevermind, just read she is.

**Meelis** · Feb 3rd, 2009, 10:43 AM

Yes, Edina is out.

Petkorazzi · Feb 3rd, 2009, 10:46 AM

Offtopic.

Do you have any idea on the dates in the group 2 in Malta ??

**Meelis** · Feb 3rd, 2009, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gigi.

Offtopic.

Do you have any idea on the dates in the group 2 in Malta ??

22-25 April

teo_honey · Feb 3rd, 2009, 02:53 PM

Poland again huh...
Last year Monica and Sorana knocked them dead. Who knows what will happen this time. Best of luck!!

Shvedbarilescu · Feb 4th, 2009, 03:46 PM

It looks like Monica has got 1st blood against Kasia Piter. It appears she won by a score of 1-6 6-2 6-0. Slow start but once Monica got in a groove obviously not much Kasia could do about it.

Providing either Sorana can beat Aga or Monica and Sorana can beat the Polish pair I think Romania should not only win this tie but go all the way to getting promoted to the World Group II division. I am pretty optimistic.

teo_honey · Feb 4th, 2009, 07:56 PM

So sad they blew their chance. The doubles match should have been theirs!

**Meelis** · Feb 4th, 2009, 08:45 PM

Better luck next year

**Meelis** · Feb 5th, 2009, 09:38 PM

Poland def. Romania 2-1

R1 - M.NICULESCU (ROU) def. K.PITER (POL)
6-1 6-4
R2 - A.RADWANSKA (POL) def. S.CIRSTEA (ROU)
6-1 6-3
R3 - K.JANS / A.ROSOLSKA (POL) def. S.CIRSTEA / M.NICULESCU (ROU)
6-4 6-0

Romania def. Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-0

R1 - M.NICULESCU (ROU) def. S.MARTINOVIC (BIH)
6-2 6-2
R2 - S.CIRSTEA (ROU) def. M.JUGIC-SALKIC (BIH)
6-3 7-6(3)
R3 - S.CIRSTEA / I.OLARU (ROU) def. M.JUGIC-SALKIC / S.MARTINOVIC (BIH)
6-1 6-2

Langers · Feb 6th, 2009, 01:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meelis

Poland def. Romania 2-1

R1 - M.NICULESCU (ROU) def. K.PITER (POL)
6-1 6-4
R2 - A.RADWANSKA (POL) def. S.CIRSTEA (ROU)
6-1 6-3
R3 - K.JANS / A.ROSOLSKA (POL) def. S.CIRSTEA / M.NICULESCU (ROU)
6-4 6-0

Romania def. Bosnia and Herzegovina 3-0

R1 - M.NICULESCU (ROU) def. S.MARTINOVIC (BIH)
6-2 6-2
R2 - S.CIRSTEA (ROU) def. M.JUGIC-SALKIC (BIH)
6-3 7-6(3)
R3 - S.CIRSTEA / I.OLARU (ROU) def. M.JUGIC-SALKIC / S.MARTINOVIC (BIH)
6-1 6-2

What the heck? Sorana?

Her singles form in 2009 has been disasterous, she is 1-3.

Can't believe Sori and Monica got blown out so badly in the doubles. They looked pretty good in Melbourne, definitely not playing this type of tennis. What in the world went wrong? It's sad; I thought this was a great team on paper.

**Meelis** · Feb 7th, 2009, 08:17 AM

Sweden def. Romania 3-0

R1 - J.LARSSON (SWE) def. M.NICULESCU (ROU)
1-6 7-6(1) 6-3
R2 - S.ARVIDSSON (SWE) def. S.CIRSTEA (ROU)
6-7(5) 6-2 7-5
R3 - E.ALLGURIN / S.ROMA (SWE) def. M.BUZARNESCU / S.CIRSTEA (ROU)
2-1 retired

**Meelis** · Feb 7th, 2009, 08:18 AM

At least they were not relegated