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Pacific Oceania Pacific Oceania (abbreviated to POC) is the name given to the group of small nations of the South Pacific Ocean, Southern, Southwest Pacific, Southwestern, Central and Western Pacific Ocean that compete collectively as one country in both the Davi ...
Fed Cup team represents the island nations of
Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of and a population of around 44.5 million ...
in
Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ...
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...
competition and are governed by the
Oceania Tennis Federation Oceania Tennis Federation (OTF) is the regional governing body of tennis in Oceania. It was formed as a regional association of International Tennis Federation The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world tennis, ...
. In
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they took part in Fed Cup competition for the first time in ten years.


Current team

The 2022 Fed Cup roster for Pacific Oceania. *
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Violet Apisah Violet Apisah (born 11 February 2000) is an Australian- Papuan tennis player. Tennis career In 2016, Apisah won the WTA Future Stars Under-16 Tournament, which was an exhibition tournament in Singapore during the 2016 WTA Finals. On the junio ...
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Abigail Tere-Apisah Abigail Agivanagi Tere-Apisah (born 13 July 1992) is a former professional tennis player from Papua New Guinea. Tere-Apisah has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 276, achieved on 6 August 2018. She is the daughter of Kwalam Apisah and ...


History

Pacific Oceania competed in its first Fed Cup in
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. Their best result was reaching Group I in
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, and 2019.


Nations represented


Former squad members

Active players listed in bold


See also

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Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ...
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Pacific Oceania Davis Cup team The Pacific Oceania Davis Cup team represents the island nations in Oceania, excluding Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia, in Davis Cup tennis competition and are governed by the Oceania Tennis Federation. Pacific Oceania on Sunday 19th S ...


External links

* Billie Jean King Cup teams Tennis in Oceania {{FedCup-stub