2016 Davis Cup Europe Zone Group III

International tennis competition February 2016 2016 Davis Cup The Europe Zone was one of the four zones within Group 3 of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2016. The zone's competition was held in round robin format in Tallinn, Estonia, in March 2016. Estonia and Cyprus won promotion to Group II, Europe/Africa Zone, for 2017. Participating nations 18em ALB AND ARM CYP EST GRE ISL IRL KOS LIE Macedonia MLT MDA MNE SMR Inactive nations AZE Draw Date: 2–5 March 2016 Location: Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia (indoor hard) Format: Round-robin basis. Four pools of four teams (Pools A, B, C and D). The winners of each pool play-off against each other to determine which two nations are promoted to Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2017. Seeding: The seeding was based on the Davis Cup Rankings of 30 November 2015 (shown in parentheses below). Pot APot BPot CPot D1 MDA (52) IRL (64) CYP (69) EST (72) 5 Macedonia (84) MNE (91) MLT (95) GRE (100) 9 LIE (107) SMR (109) ARM (117) ISL (118) 13 ALB (124) AND (126) KOS (–) Groups: Group A MDAMLTSMRRR W–LMatches W–LSets W–L Games W–LStandingsMDA 3–0 3–0 2–0 6–0 12–0 72–18 1MLT 0–3 2–1 1–1 2–4 4–8 47–55 2SMR 0–3 1–2 0–2 1–5 2–10 26–72 3 Group B IRLMacedoniaARMALBRR W–LMatches W–LSets W–L Games W–LStandingsIRL 2–1 3–0 3–0 3–0 8–1 17–2 108–39 1Macedonia 1–2 3–0 3–0 2–1 7–2 14–5 100–61 2ARM 0–3 0–3 2–1 1–2 2–7 5–14 58–94 3ALB 0–3 0–3 1–2 0–3 1–8 2–17 36–108 4 Group C CYPMNEANDISLRR W–LMatches W–LSets W–L Games W–LStandingsCYP 3–0 3–0 2–1 3–0 8–1 17–3 115–52 1MNE 0–3 2–1 2–1 2–1 4–5 8–12 89–100 2AND 0–3 1–2 2–1 1–2 3–6 9–12 86–106 3ISL 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–3 3–6 6–13 67–99 4 Group D ESTGRELIEKOSRR W–LMatches W–LSets W–L Games W–LStandingsEST 3–0 3–0 3–0 3–0 9–0 18–0 109–18 1GRE 0–3 3–0 3–0 2–1 6–3 12–6 75–63 2LIE 0–3 0–3 3–0 1–2 3–6 6–12 62–85 3KOS 0–3 0–3 0–3 0–3 0–9 0–18 28–108 4 First round Group A Moldova vs. San Marino MDA SMR Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 2 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Alexander Cozbinov 6 6 Pietro Grassi 0 0 Radu Albot 6 6 Marco De Rossi 0 2 Radu Albot Andrei Ciumac 6 6 Marco De Rossi Pietro Grassi 4 1 Malta vs. San Marino MLT SMR Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 3 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 1 Matthew Asciak 6 6 Pietro Grassi 1 1 Bernard Cassar Torregiani 6.02 6.025 Marco De Rossi 7 7 Matthew Asciak Bernard Cassar Torregiani 6 6 Marco De Rossi Pietro Grassi 2 1 Moldova vs. Malta MDA MLT Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 4 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Andrei Șoltoianu 6 6 Bradley Callus 2 3 Radu Albot 6 6 Bernard Cassar Torregiani 0 1 Radu Albot Andrei Ciumac 6 6 Bradley Callus Matthew Cassar Torregiani 3 2 Group B Ireland vs. Albania IRL ALB Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 2 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Peter Bothwell 6 6 Arber Sulstarova 0 0 Sam Barry 6 6 Flavio Deçe 1 3 Sam Barry David O'Hare 6 6 Flavio Deçe Genajd Shypheja 0 0 Macedonia vs. Armenia MKD ARM Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 2 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Dimitar Grabul 6 6 Mikayel Khachatryan 4 0 Tomislav Jotovski 6 6 Mikayel Avetisyan 4 2 Dimitar Grabul Tomislav Jotovski 6 6 Mikayel Avetisyan Henrik Nikoghosyan 1 4 Ireland vs. Armenia IRL ARM Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 3 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Bjorn Thomson 6 6 Sedrak Khachatryan 2 2 Sam Barry 6 6 Mikayel Avetisyan 1 0 Sam Barry David O'Hare 6 6 Mikayel Avetisyan Mikayel Khachatryan 1 2 Macedonia vs. Albania MKD ALB Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 3 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Dimitar Grabul 7 6 Flavio Deçe 6.025 1 Tomislav Jotovski 6 6 Genajd Shypheja 0 0 Tomislav Jotovski Gorazd Srbljak 6 6 Genajd Shypheja Arber Sulstarova 0 3 Ireland vs. Macedonia IRL MKD Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 4 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 1 Bjorn Thomson 6 3 3 Dimitar Grabul 3 6 6 Sam Barry 6 6 Tomislav Jotovski 3 4 Sam Barry David O'Hare 6 6 Dimitar Grabul Tomislav Jotovski 3 2 Armenia vs. Albania ARM ALB Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 4 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 1 Mikayel Khachatryan 6 6 Arber Sulstarova 3 0 Mikayel Avetisyan 6 3 2 Flavio Deçe 3 6 6 Mikayel Avetisyan Mikayel Khachatryan 6 6 Flavio Deçe Genajd Shypheja 2 2 Group C Cyprus vs. Iceland CYP ISL Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 2 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 1 Petros Chrysochos 6 6 Rafn Kumar Bonifacius 0 2 Marcos Baghdatis 6 6 Birkir Gunnarsson 4 0 Constandinos Christoforou Soteris Hadjistyllis 3 6 4 Rafn Kumar Bonifacius Birkir Gunnarsson 6 4 6 Montenegro vs. Andorra MNE AND Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 2 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 1 Rrezart Cungu 3 5 Jean-Baptiste Poux-Gautier 6 7 Ljubomir Čelebić 6 5 6 Laurent Recouderc 4 7 4 Ljubomir Čelebić Pavle Rogan 6 5 6 Jean-Baptiste Poux-Gautier Laurent Recouderc 2 7 4 Montenegro vs. Iceland MNE ISL Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 3 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 1 Rrezart Cungu 4 4 Rafn Kumar Bonifacius 6 6 Ljubomir Čelebić 6 6 Birkir Gunnarsson 2 2 Ljubomir Čelebić Pavle Rogan 6 6 Rafn Kumar Bonifacius Birkir Gunnarsson 3 3 Cyprus vs. Andorra CYP AND Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 3 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Petros Chrysochos 6 6 Eric Cervos Noguer 0 0 Marcos Baghdatis 6 6 Jean-Baptiste Poux-Gautier 2 0 Constandinos Christoforou Soteris Hadjistyllis 4 7 6 Jean-Baptiste Poux-Gautier Laurent Recouderc 6 6.01 1 Andorra vs. Iceland AND ISL Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 4 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 1 Eric Cervos Noguer 2 4 Rafn Kumar Bonifacius 6 6 Laurent Recouderc 6 6 Birkir Gunnarsson 3 1 Jean-Baptiste Poux-Gautier Laurent Recouderc 6 6 Rafn Kumar Bonifacius Birkir Gunnarsson 3 4 Cyprus vs. Montenegro CYP MNE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 4 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Petros Chrysochos 6 6 Pavle Rogan 0 0 Marcos Baghdatis 6 7 Ljubomir Čelebić 4 6.03 Constandinos Christoforou Soteris Hadjistyllis 6 6 Matija Bulatovic Rrezart Cungu 2 3 Group D Greece vs. Kosovo GRE KOS Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 2 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Christos Antonopoulos 6 6 Granit Bajraliu 2 2 Ioannis Stergiou 6 6 Hyda Banjska 4 0 Christos Antonopoulos Vasileios Iliopoulos 6 6 Gurash Hasani Meldin Mustafi 2 1 Estonia vs. Liechtenstein EST LIE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 2 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Kenneth Raisma 6 6 Gian-Carlo Besimo 1 3 Jürgen Zopp 6 6 Vital Flurin Leuch 0 0 Kenneth Raisma Jürgen Zopp 6 7 Robin Forster Timo Kranz 0 6.02 Greece vs. Liechtenstein GRE LIE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 3 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Christos Antonopoulos 6 6 Robin Forster 3 4 Ioannis Stergiou 6 6 Timo Kranz 1 2 Christos Antonopoulos Vasileios Iliopoulos 6 6 Gian-Carlo Besimo Vital Flurin Leuch 3 3 Estonia vs. Kosovo EST KOS Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 3 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Vladimir Ivanov 6 6 Granit Bajraliu 0 2 Jürgen Zopp 6 6 Hyda Banjska 0 1 Mattias Siimar Jürgen Zopp 6 6 Granit Bajraliu Gurash Hasani 1 1 Estonia vs. Greece EST GRE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 4 March 2016 Hard (i) 3 0 Kenneth Raisma 6 6 Christos Antonopoulos 1 0 Jürgen Zopp 6 6 Ioannis Stergiou 0 1 Mattias Siimar Jürgen Zopp 6 6 Christos Antonopoulos Vasileios Iliopoulos 0 1 Kosovo vs. Liechtenstein KOS LIE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 4 March 2016 Hard (i) 0 3 Granit Bajraliu 3 4 Robin Forster 6 6 Hyda Banjska 1 0 Vital Flurin Leuch 6 6 Gurash Hasani Meldin Mustafi 3 1 Timo Kranz Vital Flurin Leuch 6 6 Play-offs PlacingA TeamScoreD TeamPromotional MDA 0–2 EST5th–8th MLT 1–2 GRE9th–12th SMR1–2LIE13th–15th N/A — KOSPlacingB TeamScoreC TeamPromotional IRL0–2CYP5th–8th Macedonia 2–0 MNE9th–12th ARM 1–2 AND13th–15th ALB0–3ISL Promotional Moldova vs. Estonia MDA EST Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 5 March 2016 Hard (i) 0 2 Alexander Cozbinov 2 4 Kenneth Raisma 6 6 Radu Albot 2 2 Jürgen Zopp 6 6 Radu Albot Andrei Ciumac Mattias Siimar Jürgen Zopp Ireland vs. Cyprus IRL CYP Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 5 March 2016 Hard (i) 0 2 Peter Bothwell 1 6 0 Petros Chrysochos 6 2 6 Sam Barry 4 6.03 Marcos Baghdatis 6 7 Sam Barry David O'Hare Marcos Baghdatis Petros Chrysochos 5th–8th Malta vs. Greece MLT GRE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 5 March 2016 Hard (i) 1 2 Matthew Asciak 6 6 Vasileios Iliopoulos 2 1 Bernard Cassar Torregiani 2 6 0 Ioannis Stergiou 6 3 6 Matthew Asciak Bernard Cassar Torregiani 5 4 Christos Antonopoulos Vasileios Iliopoulos 7 6 Macedonia vs. Montenegro MKD MNE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 5 March 2016 Hard (i) 2 0 Gorazd Srbljak 6 6 Matija Bulatovic 1 2 Dimitar Grabul 6 6 Rrezart Cungu 2 0 Dimitar Grabul Tomislav Jotovski Rrezart Cungu Pavle Rogan 9th–12th San Marino vs. Liechtenstein SMR LIE Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 5 March 2016 Hard (i) 1 2 Pietro Grassi 1 6 3 Timo Kranz 6 3 6 Marco De Rossi 6 7 Vital Flurin Leuch 2 5 Marco De Rossi Pietro Grassi 2 3 Robin Forster Timo Kranz 6 6 Armenia vs. Andorra ARM AND Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 5 March 2016 Hard (i) 1 2 Mikayel Khachatryan 3 3 Jean-Baptiste Poux-Gautier 6 6 Sedrak Khachatryan 2 3 Laurent Recouderc 6 6 Sedrak Khachatryan Henrik Nikoghosyan 2 6 6 Eric Cervos Noguer Genajd Shypheja 6 3 4 13th–15th Albania vs. Iceland ALB ISL Tere Tennis Centre, Tallinn, Estonia 5 March 2016 Hard (i) 0 3 Mario Zili 1 0 Rafn Kumar Bonifacius 6 6 Flavio Deçe 2 3 Birkir Gunnarsson 6 6 Genajd Shypheja Arber Sulstarova 1 4 Birkir Gunnarsson Vladimir Ristic 6 6 References External links Official Website Europe Zone Group III Category:Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone