India vs South africa Live davis cup play-off on 18-20 sep

South Africa Official Team Nominations Rik DE VOEST Izak VAN DER MERWE Wesley MOODIE Jeff COETZEE Team Captain John-Laffnie DE JAGER

World Group, 2009 - Play-off Ellis Park Indoor Arena, Johannesburg Stadium Capacity: 5000 18 September - 20 September 2009 Day 1: 1200 hrs (1000 hrs GMT) Day 2: 1300 hrs (1100 hrs GMT) Day 3: 1200 hrs (1000 hrs GMT) Surface: Hard (Greenset) - Indoors Ball Type: Wilson US Open View TV Schedule South Africa 0 0 India R1 - I.VAN DER MERWE (RSA) v. S.DEVVARMAN (IND) R2 - R.DE VOEST (RSA) v. R.BOPANNA (IND) R3 - J.COETZEE / W.MOODIE (RSA) v. M.BHUPATHI / R.BOPANNA (IND) R4 - R.DE VOEST (RSA) v. S.DEVVARMAN (IND) R5 - I.VAN DER MERWE (RSA) v. R.BOPANNA (IND) Full Results TIE PREVIEW South Africa has defeated India in both of their previous meetings. They last met in 1994, also at this stage of the competition, with Marcos Ondruska completing a 3-2 victory in the deciding rubber. South Africa has defeated FYR Macedonia and Belarus in this year's Europe/Africa Group I competition while India defeated Chinese Taipei and then received a walkover against Australia. South Africa has won its last 10 ties in the competition and has reached the World Group Play-offs for the first time in 10 years. It has made 4 World Group appearances, the last being in 1998. This is the 2nd successive year that India has reached the World Group Play-offs - it lost to Romania at this stage last year. It is bidding to reach the World Group for the first time since 1998. ALL TIME TEAM HEAD TO HEAD 2 Total 0 1 Clay 0 1 Grass 0 0 Hard 0 0 Carpet 0 0 Unknown 0 0 Indoors 0 2 Outdoors 0 More Head To Head Detail

India Official Team Nominations Somdev DEVVARMAN Rohan BOPANNA Mahesh BHUPATHI Yuki BHAMBRI Team Captain Shiv-Prakash