JonH comes home wrote:

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I mean, we played our second team here really, with our top 2 singles players missing and playing our 2nd and 6th ranked doubles players.

Hopefully we will get an ok draw in the September World Group One (BBC kept calling it relegation playoffs but it is equally promotion play offs and officially World Group One) and avoid an away tie on clay somewhere.

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 Tbf most of the media calls it a relegation play-off which is what it really is for us ( and it is from5 a GB point of view they are talking ).

Anyway lose it and we ain't in any World Group winning contention next year, we will be out of that process as we will have dropped a tier. I think promotion / relegation play-off kind of paints the picture better than the official World Group 1 malarkey, which then begs the question as to what does that mean, especially with a less clued up audience.

Tennpar wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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JonH comes home wrote:

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I mean, we played our second team here really, with our top 2 singles players missing and playing our 2nd and 6th ranked doubles players.

Hopefully we will get an ok draw in the September World Group One (BBC kept calling it relegation playoffs but it is equally promotion play offs and officially World Group One) and avoid an away tie on clay somewhere.

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 Tbf most of the media calls it a relegation play-off which is what it really is for us ( and it is from a GB point of view they are talking ).

Anyway lose it and we ain't in any World Group winning contention next year, we will be out of that process as we will have dropped a tier. I think promotion / relegation play-off kind of paints the picture better than the official World Group 1 malarkey, which then begs the question as to what does that mean, especially with a less clued up audience.

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 Agree Indi that the terminology could be clearer, and I'm one who looks at the website and gets tickets to these events sometimes 

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 Double agreed and I should have said above in my original post that I find it confusing also. I tend to post quickly, and not check what Ive said or if I have made my point clearly, and on this occasion (as with many occasions) it wasnt at all clear! 

JonH comes home wrote:

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These are the teams in the promotion/relegation play offs in September (13/14 or 14/15, home drawn team selects dates).

We are a seed and, presumably, draw an unseeded team

Seeded teams
Canada (#3)
Serbia (#7)
Great Britain (#12)
Finland (#13)
Chile (#16)
Brazil (#17)
Slovakia (#18)
South Korea (#19)
Sweden (#20)
Kazakhstan (#21)
Switzerland (#23)
Portugal (#26)
Chinese Taipei (#27)
Unseeded teams
Israel (#28)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (#30)
Norway (#31)
Colombia (#32)
Turkey (#33)
Peru (#34)
Ecuador (#36) or Uruguay (#45)
India (#38)
Greece (#39)
Poland (#41)
Bulgaria (#43)
Luxembourg (#54=)
Tunisia (#56)

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 I believe the rankings might be updated before the draw. But Norway a tough opponent for any seed.

And yes, agree re the terminology. None of the World Groups are really a group, they're just a round. And if sticking to that terminology, surely you start the year in the World Group I and move on to the Play-offs and not the other way round.

indiana wrote:

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Good to see that Jon's on board for calling September the promotion / relegation play-offs

We now just need to petition the Davis Cup bods.

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 Agreed, but not as simple as that. You have promotion and relegation between Qualifiers and World Group I, and between World Group I and World Group II, so how do you differentiate.

JonH comes home wrote:

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9vicman wrote:

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indiana wrote:

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Good to see that Jon's on board for calling September the promotion / relegation play-offs

We now just need to petition the Davis Cup bods.

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 Agreed, but not as simple as that. You have promotion and relegation between Qualifiers and World Group I, and between World Group I and World Group II, so how do you differentiate.

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 Simple - we call the September event GB will be in the

promotion to World Group and relegation to World Group I playoffs

- it rolls off the tongue and the marketing bods will love it! 

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 Quite and that's the issue! In fact it would be relegation to 'World Group I Play-offs' play-offs!!!