The European and African Zone is one of the three zones of regional Davis Cup competition in 2008.

Contents

• Participating teams
• Draw
• First round matches
• Luxembourg vs. Denmark
• Finland vs. South Africa
• Algeria vs. Hungary
• Monaco vs. Greece
• Ukraine vs. Egypt
• Ireland vs. Morocco
• Cyprus vs. Slovenia
• Portugal vs. Tunisia
• Play-offs
• Finland vs. Luxembourg
• Greece vs. Hungary
• Egypt vs. Morocco
• Tunisia vs. Slovenia
• Second round matches
• South Africa vs. Denmark
• Monaco vs. Algeria
• Ireland vs. Ukraine
• Portugal vs. Cyprus
• Third round matches
• Monaco vs. South Africa
• Ukraine vs. Portugal
• References

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

Participating teams

•   Algeria
•   Cyprus
•   Denmark
•   Egypt
•   Finland
•   Greece
•   Hungary
•   Ireland
•   Luxembourg
•   Monaco
•   Morocco
•   Portugal
•   Slovenia
•   South Africa
•   Tunisia
•   Ukraine

Draw

	Play-offs					First round					Second round					Third round
						Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg (indoor hard)
						1	Luxembourg	0
	Hanko, Finland (clay)										Johannesburg, South Africa (hard)
							Denmark	5
	1	Luxembourg	2								Denmark		0
						Helsinki, Finland (indoor hard)
	7	Finland	3								South Africa		5
						7	Finland	1
																Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay)
							South Africa	4
																	South Africa	3
						Algiers, Algeria (clay)
																5	Monaco	2
						3	Hungary	2
	Thessaloniki, Greece (clay)										Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay)
							Algeria	3
	3	Hungary	5									Algeria	0
						Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay)
		Greece	0								5	Monaco	5
						5	Monaco	3
							Greece	2
						Cherkasy, Ukraine (indoor hard)
							Egypt	0
	Cairo, Egypt (clay)										Dublin, Ireland (grass)
						6	Ukraine	5
		Egypt	3								6	Ukraine	3
						Dublin, Ireland (indoor carpet)
	4	Morocco	2									Ireland	2
							Ireland	3
																Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (indoor hard)
						4	Morocco	2
																6	Ukraine	5
						Nicosia, Cyprus (hard)
																2	Portugal	0
							Cyprus	3
	Tunis, Tunisia (clay)										Porto, Portugal (clay)
						8	Slovenia	2
	8	Slovenia	4									Cyprus	0
						Estoril, Portugal (clay)
		Tunisia	1								2	Portugal	5
							Tunisia	1
						2	Portugal	4

• Luxembourg, Greece, Morocco, and Tunisia relegated to Group III in 2009.
• South Africa and Ukraine promoted to Group I in 2009.

First round matches

Luxembourg vs. Denmark

Luxembourg 0	National Tennis Centre, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 11–13 April 2008 hard (indoors)		Denmark 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 Roman Margoulis Frederik Nielsen 3 6 1 6 2 6       2 Philippe Grandjean Martin Pedersen 5 7 6 3 1 6 1 6     3 Philippe Grandjean  /  Tom Maquel Frederik Nielsen  /  Rasmus Nørby 1 6 3 6 0 6       4 Philippe Grandjean Rasmus Nørby 3 6 1 6         5 Roman Margoulis Martin Pedersen 2 6 2 6

Finland vs. South Africa

Finland 1	Tali Tennis Center, Helsinki, Finland 11–13 April 2008 hard (indoors)		South Africa 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Juho Paukku Kevin Anderson 0 6 4 6 65 77       2 Jarkko Nieminen Rik de Voest 6 4 6 3 7 5       3 Henri Kontinen  /  Jarkko Nieminen Jeff Coetzee  /  Wesley Moodie 6 4 1 6 4 6 2 6     4 Jarkko Nieminen Kevin Anderson 6 4 3 6 1 6 3 6     5 Henri Kontinen Rik de Voest 6 4 4 6 3 6

Algeria vs. Hungary

Algeria 3	Office du Complexe Olympique Mohamed Boudiaf Tennis Club, Algiers, Algeria 11–13 April 2008 clay (outdoors)		Hungary 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Slimane Saoudi Kornél Bardóczky 1 6 4 6 3 6       2 Lamine Ouahab Sebő Kiss 1 6 4 6 6 4 6 1 7 5   3 Lamine Ouahab  /  Slimane Saoudi Kornél Bardóczky  /  Róbert Varga 4 6 3 6 5 7       4 Lamine Ouahab Kornél Bardóczky 6 1 4 6 3 6 6 3 6 2   5 Slimane Saoudi Sebő Kiss 77 64 4 6 6 0 6 3

Monaco vs. Greece

Monaco 3	Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune Cap Martin, France 11–13 April 2008 clay (outdoors)		Greece 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Jean-René Lisnard Alexandros Jakupovic 6 3 6 1 6 1       2 Benjamin Balleret Konstantinos Economidis 6 3 3 6 61 77 5 7     3 Guillaume Couillard  /  Jean-René Lisnard Konstantinos Economidis  /  Alexandros Jakupovic 3 6 5 7 3 6       4 Jean-René Lisnard Konstantinos Economidis 2 6 4 6 77 64 6 0 6 0   5 Benjamin Balleret Alexandros Jakupovic 6 3 6 1 7 5

Ukraine vs. Egypt

Ukraine 5	Selena Tennis Club, Cherkasy, Ukraine 11–13 April 2008 hard (indoors)		Egypt 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sergiy Stakhovsky Karim Maamoun 6 1 6 3 6 1       2 Sergey Bubka Sherif Sabry 6 1 77 64 2 6 6 0     3 Sergey Bubka  /  Sergiy Stakhovsky Karim Maamoun  /  Sherif Sabry 64 77 6 1 6 4 6 2     4 Artem Smirnov Sherif Sabry 6 3 6 3         5 Ivan Sergeyev Mahmoud Ezz 6 3 6 4

Ireland vs. Morocco

Ireland 3	Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin, Ireland 11–13 April 2008 carpet (indoors)		Morocco 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Louk Sorensen Mounir El Aarej 6 3 2 6 6 4 6 2     2 Conor Niland Younes El Aynaoui 4 6 4 6 2 6       3 James Cluskey  /  Colin O'Brien Rabie Chaki  /  Reda El Amrani 6 1 5 7 6 2 64 77 4 6   4 Louk Sorensen Younes El Aynaoui 3 6 6 4 77 65 6 4     5 Conor Niland Mounir El Aarej 77 64 1 6 66 78 6 3 6 0

Cyprus vs. Slovenia

Cyprus 3	National Tennis Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 11–13 April 2008 hard (outdoors)		Slovenia 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Photos Kallias Marko Tkalec 3 6 3 6 1 6       2 Marcos Baghdatis Blaž Kavčič 6 4 6 3 6 4       3 Marcos Baghdatis  /  Photos Kallias Luka Gregorc  /  Grega Žemlja 77 64 4 6 6 2 4 6 6 1   4 Marcos Baghdatis Marko Tkalec 6 4 6 4 6 4       5 Photos Kallias Blaž Kavčič 1 6 1 6

Portugal vs. Tunisia

Portugal 4	Clube de Tenis do Estoril, Estoril, Portugal 11–13 April 2008 clay (outdoors)		Tunisia 1
1 2 3 4 5 1 Rui Machado Walid Jallali 6 1 6 1 7 5       2 Frederico Gil Malek Jaziri 6 3 6 4 6 3       3 Gastão Elias  /  Leonardo Tavares Walid Jallali  /  Malek Jaziri 6 3 6 3 6 3       4 Gastão Elias Walid Jallali 5 7 2 6         5 Leonardo Tavares Slah Mbarek 6 2 6 4

Play-offs

Finland vs. Luxembourg

Finland 3	Hanko Tennis Stadion, Hanko, Finland [1] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Luxembourg 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Timo Nieminen Gilles Müller 1 6 4 6 2 6       2 Jarkko Nieminen Philippe Grandjean 6 0 6 1 6 0       3 Henri Kontinen  /  Jarkko Nieminen Laurent Bram  /  Gilles Müller 6 2 79 67 77 64       4 Harri Heliövaara Gilles Müller 4 6 5 7 1 6       5 Henri Kontinen Laurent Bram 6 1 6 3 6 3

Greece vs. Hungary

Greece 0	Thessaloniki Tennis Club, Thessaloniki, Greece [2] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Hungary 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 Konstantinos Mikos Sebő Kiss 1 6 3 6 0 6       2 Charalampos Kapogiannis Kornél Bardóczky 2 6 2 6 4 6       3 Charalampos Kapogiannis  /  Konstantinos Mikos Kornél Bardóczky  /  Róbert Varga 1 6 1 6 1 6       4 Konstantinos Mikos Dénes Lukács 1 6 2 6         5 Charalampos Kapogiannis Sebő Kiss 1 6 2 6

Egypt vs. Morocco

Egypt 3	Heliopolis Sporting Club, Cairo, Egypt [3] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Morocco 2
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sherif Sabry Talal Ouahabi 2 6 62 77 3 2       retired 2 Karim Maamoun Reda El Amrani 2 6 2 6 711 69 6 4 6 4   3 Karim Maamoun  /  Sherif Sabry Reda El Amrani  /  Mehdi Ziadi 67 79 7 5 4 6 5 7     4 Mohamed Mamoun Reda El Amrani 4 6 2 6 4 6       5 Karim Maamoun Mehdi Ziadi 6 4 77 61 6 3

Tunisia vs. Slovenia

Tunisia 1	Tennis Club de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia [4] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Slovenia 4
1 2 3 4 5 1 Malek Jaziri Grega Žemlja 6 3 1 6 6 4 3 6 4 6   2 Walid Jallali Marko Tkalec 3 6 1 6 2 6       3 Haythem Abid  /  Malek Jaziri Marko Tkalec  /  Grega Žemlja 3 6 7 5 77 65 7 5     4 Haythem Abid Blaž Kavčič 3 6 6 3 6 3 5 7 2 6   5 Anis Ghorbel Janez Semrajc 3 6 3 6

Second round matches

South Africa vs. Denmark

South Africa 5	Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, South Africa [5] 18–20 July 2008 Hard		Denmark 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Kevin Anderson Martin Pedersen 77 65 7 5 6 2       2 Rik de Voest Frederik Nielsen 6 3 6 2 6 2       3 Jeff Coetzee  /  Rik de Voest Frederik Nielsen  /  Rasmus Nørby 77 63 7 5 4 6 7 5     4 Kevin Anderson Thomas Kromann 6 1 6 3         5 Izak van der Merwe Martin Pedersen 712 610 6 4

Monaco vs. Algeria

Monaco 5	Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France [6] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Algeria 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Jean-René Lisnard Ouassel Hared 715 613 6 3 6 1       2 Benjamin Balleret Slimane Saoudi 3 6 6 3 6 2 6 4     3 Guillaume Couillard  /  Jean-René Lisnard Abdelhak Hameurlaine  /  Slimane Saoudi 6 3 6 2 6 4       4 Clément Morel Slimane Saoudi 6 4 6 1         5 Benjamin Balleret Abdelhak Hameurlaine 6 2 6 4

Ireland vs. Ukraine

Ireland 2	Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin, Ireland [7] 18–20 July 2008 Grass		Ukraine 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Conor Niland Artem Smirnov 6 1 6 2 6 2       2 Colin O'Brien Sergiy Stakhovsky 3 6 3 6 1 6       3 James Cluskey  /  Eoin Heavey Sergey Bubka  /  Sergiy Stakhovsky 3 6 66 78 4 6       4 Conor Niland Sergiy Stakhovsky 6 4 6 4 4 6 67 79 5 7   5 Colin O'Brien Artem Smirnov 6 2 6 2

Portugal vs. Cyprus

Portugal 5	Lawn Tennis Club da Foz, Porto, Portugal [8] 18–20 July 2008 Clay		Cyprus 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Frederico Gil George Kallis 6 1 6 1 6 0       2 Rui Machado Photos Kallias 6 4 6 4 7 5       3 Frederico Gil  /  Leonardo Tavares Photos Kallias  /  Demetrios Leontis 6 2 6 1 5 7 6 3     4 Frederico Gil Photos Kallias 6 3 6 2         5 João Sousa Eleftherios Christou 6 3 6 3

Third round matches

Monaco vs. South Africa

Monaco 2	Monte Carlo Country Club, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France [9] 19–21 September 2008 Clay		South Africa 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 Benjamin Balleret Kevin Anderson 79 67 2 6 6 2 3 6 0 6   2 Jean-René Lisnard Rik de Voest 6 4 4 6 5 7 64 77     3 Guillaume Couillard  /  Jean-René Lisnard Jeff Coetzee  /  Izak van der Merwe 6 2 3 6 6 4 6 4     4 Jean-René Lisnard Kevin Anderson 6 3 6 4 77 62       5 Benjamin Balleret Rik de Voest 5 7 2 6 1 6

Ukraine vs. Portugal

Ukraine 5	Megaron Tennis Club, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine [10] 19–21 September 2008 Hard (indoor)		Portugal 0
1 2 3 4 5 1 Sergiy Stakhovsky Gastão Elias 6 4 77 65 6 4       2 Sergey Bubka Rui Machado 6 3 3 6 77 64 6 4     3 Sergey Bubka  /  Sergiy Stakhovsky Gastão Elias  /  Leonardo Tavares 6 3 6 2 6 4       4 Illya Marchenko João Sousa 6 3 6 3         5 Ivan Sergeyev Leonardo Tavares 78 66 4 6 6 3

References

• Draw