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JAMAICA DAVIS CUP TEAM LEAVES FOR COSTA RICA ON SATURDAY
Jamaica’s five- man team of Dominic Pagon, non playing captain, Rowland ” Randy” Phillips, Dimitri Bird, Duainne Miller and Marcus Malcolm, that will participate in the 2018 Americas Zone, Group 3 Davis Cup competition, will leave the island on Saturday for Costa Rica.
The tournament will take place at the Costa Rica Country Club, and will run from May 28 to June 2, 2018.
Eight other teams will be participating in this competition. They are Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Cuba, Honduras, Panama and Paraguay.
The teams will be placed in two Pools, A (four), and B (five),and competition will be on a round-robin basis. The top seeded nations, Paraguay and Honduras, will be placed in opposite Pools, before the draw is done on Sunday.
The winner of Pool A will then meet the runner-up in Pool B and the winner of Pool B will meet the runner up in Pool A. The two winners will then move up to Zone 2 competition in 2019.