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Pacific Oceania

Pacific Oceania

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Pacific Oceania[1][2] (abbreviated to POC) is the name given to the group of small nations of the Southern, Southwestern, Central and Western Pacific Ocean that compete collectively as one country in both the Davis Cup (men) and Billie Jean King Cup (women) tennis tournaments. Pacific Oceania is governed by the Oceania Tennis Federation.

Map of countries represented in the Pacific Oceania teams. Former member (Guam) in orange.

As some Pacific Ocean countries and territories were too small or underdeveloped to have their own national teams, Pacific Oceania was established in the 1995, with both the men's and women's teams first participating in the 1995 editions of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup, respectively.

Nations and territories represented

  1.  American Samoa
  2.  Cook Islands
  3. Fiji Fiji (competed independently in the 1990s)
  4.  Guam (1995–2017 and compete independently since 2020[3])
  5.  Kiribati
  6.  Marshall Islands
  7.  Federated States of Micronesia
  8. New Caledonia New Caledonia
  9.  Nauru
  10.  Norfolk Island
  11.  Northern Mariana Islands[4]
  12.  Palau
  13.  Papua New Guinea
  14.  Samoa
  15.  Solomon Islands
  16.  Tahiti
  17.  Tonga
  18.  Tuvalu
  19.  Vanuatu
Oceania Tennis Federation members never represented
  1.  Australia
  2.  New Zealand

See also

References

  1. [1]
    OCEANIA TENNIS FEDERATION – Official
  2. [2]
    Oceania Tennis – Facebook page
  3. [3]
    Sport: Guam to make Fed Cup tennis debut
  4. [4]
    NMI Tennis Association to resume training


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