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Vietnam’s tennis team to play Davis Cup
Updated: 09:30, 26/06/2019
The national tennis team left for Singapore’s Davis Cup Group III Asia-Oceania Zone round on June 23.
The team is targeting a berth in Group II next season.
The June 26-29 tournament includes eight teams of which Vietnam are the top seeds as the highest ranking global team at No 66.
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Ly Hoang Nam in an interview before leaving for Singapore. |
They are No 1 seeds in Group A, while Iran, world No 72, are favourites in Group B. The draw will be held on June 25 at the OCBC Arena.
The top three teams at the tournament will be promoted while the bottom two teams will be relegated.
If Vietnam succeed, the team will receive a bonus of 15,000 USD from the Vietnam Tennis Federation and its sponsors.
Vietnam finished second in the ASEAN Team Tennis Championship, which concluded in Singapore on May 9.
The eighth International Table-Tennis Tournament for Hoang Thach Cup kicked off in the northern province of Hai Duong on April 12.
Ly Hoang Nam has climbed 11 places and remains the only Vietnamese in the ATP men’s tennis rankings.
Vietnam’s top tennis star Ly Hoang Nam impressively won both his singles and doubles matches at the on-going Vietnam F5 Futures tournament on November 2.
Vietnamese player Nguyen Van Phuong has reached the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles at the World Super Junior Tennis Championships in Japan with his partner Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune from Denmark.
Source: VNA
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