1998 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II – Placement Pool A

Main article: 1998 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone

Placement Group A of the 1998 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II was one of six pools in the Asia/Oceania Zone Group II of the 1998 Fed Cup. The three teams that placed first in the initial pools competed in a round robin competition, with the top team advancing to the World Group II Play-offs.

	IND	POC	TJK	RR W–L	Set W–L	Game W–L	Standings
India		2–0	2–1	2–0	8–3	66–46	1
Pacific Oceania	0–2		2–0	1–1	4–4	41–36	2
Tajikistan	1–2	0–2		0–2	3–8	38–63	3

India vs. Tajikistan

India
2

Thana City Golf Club, Samutpakarn, Thailand
19 February 1998
Hard (outdoors)

Tajikistan
1

		1	2	3
1	Uzma Khan Eugenia Silantieva	4 6	6 0	6 0
2	Nirupama Vaidyanathan Youliya Dimitrova	7 6	6 4
3	Rushmi Chakravarthi / Arati Ponnappa Youliya Dimitrova / Eugenia Silantieva	4 6	6 7

Pacific Oceania vs. India

Pacific Oceania
0

Thana City Golf Club, Samutpakarn, Thailand
20 February 1998
Hard (outdoors)

India
2

		1	2
1	Paiao-Asinata Short Uzma Khan	5 7	5 7
2	Tagifano So'Onalole Nirupama Vaidyanathan	2 6	5 7
3	Tagifano So'Onalole / Paiao-Asinata Short Uzma Khan / Nirupama Vaidyanathan			not played

Pacific Oceania vs. Tajikistan

Pacific Oceania
2

Thana City Golf Club, Samutpakarn, Thailand
21 February 1998
Hard (outdoors)

Tajikistan
0

		1	2
1	Paiao-Asinata Short Eugenia Silantieva	6 3	6 1
2	Tagifano So'Onalole Youliya Dimitrova	6 2	6 3
3	Paiao-Asinata Short / Tagifano So'Onalole Youliya Dimitrova / Eugenia Silantieva			not played

India and Pacific Oceania placed first and second in this pool, and thus advanced to Group I for 1999. India placed second in their pool of five, while Pacific Oceania placed last in their pool and thus were relegated back down to Group II for 2000.