2009 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group III



The European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2009.

In the European and African Zone there are four different groups in which teams compete against each other to advance to the next group.

Format
The fourteen teams will be divided into two sections, Section A and Section B. There will be a round robin with eight teams in each section. The eight nations will be divided into two pools of four. The top two teams in each pool will advance to the Final Pool of four teams from which the two highest-placed nations are promoted to Europe and Africa Group II in 2010. The bottom two teams or the bottom team of each pool of the two round robins will compete against each other in the Relegation Pool. The lowest-placed nations are relegated to Europe and Africa Group IV in 2010.

Information
Section A:

Venue: Istanbul, Turkey

Surface: Hard – outdoors

Dates: 23 April – 3 May

Section B:

Venue: Tunis, Tunisia

Surface: Clay – outdoors

Dates: 1–5 April

Participating teams
Section A



Section B



Promotion Pool

 * The matches Turkey-Greece and Luxembourg-Estonia will not be played as they already played against each other in the previous round. Furthermore, the points gained at the matches played in the previous round will count for the table.

Relegation Pool

 * The matches Botswana-Iceland and Madagascar-Rwanda will not be played as they already played against each other in the previous round. Furthermore, the points gained at the matches played in the previous round will count for the table.

Promotion play-off Group (1st to 4th)

 * The matches Norway-Bosnia and Herzegovina and Morocco-Tunisia will not be played as they already played against each other in the previous round. Furthermore, the points gained at the matches played in the previous round will count for the table.

Relegation play-off Group(5th to 8th)

 * The matches Andorra-Namibia and Nigeria-San Marino will not be played as they already played against each other in the previous round. Furthermore, the points gained at the matches played in the previous round will count for the table.