| Details | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 8 February – 23 November 2008 |
| Edition | 97th |
| Champion | |
| Winning nation | |
← 2007 2009 → | |
The 2008 Davis Cup was the 97th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. Sixteen teams participated in the World Group and more than one hundred others took part in different regional groups. The first matches were played on February 8–10. The final took place on November 21–23 at Estadio Polideportivo Islas Malvinas, Mar del Plata, Argentina, with Spain beating Argentina 3–1 to clinch their 3rd Davis Cup title. Mongolia made its first appearance in the tournament.
| Participating Teams | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Argentina |
Austria |
Belgium |
Czech Republic |
France |
Great Britain |
Germany |
Israel |
Peru |
Romania |
Russia |
Serbia |
South Korea |
Spain |
Sweden |
United States |
| First round 8–10 February | Quarterfinals 11–13 April | Semifinals 19–21 September | Final 21–23 November | |||||||||||||||
| Moscow, Russia (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Moscow, Russia (indoor clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ostrava, Czech Republic (indoor carpet) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Buenos Aires, Argentina (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Buenos Aires, Argentina (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Buenos Aires, Argentina (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Ramat HaSharon, Israel (hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mar del Plata, Argentina (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Braunschweig, Germany (indoor clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bremen, Germany (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Lima, Peru (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Madrid, Spain (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sibiu, Romania (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Winston-Salem, USA (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Vienna, Austria (indoor clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
Argentina 1 |
Estadio Polideportivo, Mar del Plata, Argentina 21–23 November 2008 Hard (i) |
Spain 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties, and eight winners of the Group I second round ties entered the draw for the World Group play-offs. Eight seeded teams, based on the Davis Cup rankings as of 14 April, were drawn against eight unseeded teams.
| Home team | Score | Visiting team | Location | Venue | Door | Surface |
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| 3–2 | Antofagasta | Estadio Militar Antofagasta | Outdoor | Clay | ||
| 2–3 | Wimbledon, London | All England Lawn Tennis Club | Outdoor | Grass | ||
| 4–1 | Lausanne | Centre Intercommunal de Glace Malley | Indoor | Hard | ||
| 4–1 | Zadar | Športski centar Višnjik | Indoor | Hard | ||
| 4–1 | Ramat HaSharon | Israel Tennis Center | Outdoor | Hard | ||
| 3–2 | Apeldoorn | Omnisport Apeldoorn | Indoor | Clay | ||
| 4–1 | Bucharest | Clubul Sportiv Progresul | Outdoor | Clay | ||
| 1–4 | Bratislava | Sibamac Arena | Indoor | Hard |
| Second Round Play-offs | First Round Play-offs | First Round | Second Round | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | Santiago, Chile (clay) | |||||||||||||||||
| bye | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Calgary, Canada (indoor carpet) | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| León, Mexico (indoor carpet) | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Punta del Este, Uruguay (clay) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sorocaba, Brazil (clay) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
The Americas Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2008.
In the Americas Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams compete against each other to advance to the upper tier. Winners in Group II advanced to the Americas Zone Group I. Teams who lost their respective ties competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group II, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Americas Zone Group III in 2009.
| Play-offs | First Round | Second Round | Third Round | |||||||||||||||
| Emmastad, Curaçao (hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Emmastad, Curaçao (hard) | 1 | Guayaquil, Ecuador (clay) | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (clay) | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 | Lambaré, Paraguay (indoor hard) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nassau, Bahamas (hard) | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| San Juan de los Morros, Ven. (hard) | 3 | 1 | Nassau, Bahamas (hard) | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Lambaré, Paraguay (clay) | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
Netherlands Antilles 1 |
S.O.V. Asiento, Emmastad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles 8–10 February 2008 Hard |
Ecuador 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bolivia 0 |
Club de Tenis Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia 8–10 February 2008 Clay |
Dominican Republic 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bahamas 4 |
National Tennis Center, Nassau, Bahamas 8–10 February 2008 Hard |
Venezuela 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paraguay 3 |
Yacht y Golf Club Paraguayo, Lambaré, Paraguay 8–10 February 2008 Clay |
El Salvador 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ecuador 4 |
Guayaquil Tenis Club, Guayaquil, Ecuador 11–13 April 2008 Clay |
Dominican Republic 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bahamas 1 |
National Tennis Center, Nassau, Bahamas 11–13 April 2008 Hard |
Paraguay 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Netherlands Antilles 3 |
S.O.V. Asiento, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles 11–13 April 2008 Hard |
Bolivia 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Venezuela 4 |
Ciudad Olímpica de San Juan de Los Morros, San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela 11–13 April 2008 Hard |
El Salvador 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paraguay 2 |
Polideportivo de la Cooperativa Lambaré, Lambaré, Paraguay 19–21 September 2008 Hard (indoors) |
Ecuador 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Group B | GUA | PUR | PAN | ARU | |
| 1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 |
Scores in italics carried over from groups
| 1st–4th playoff | GUA | JAM | BAR | PUR | |
| 1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 |
The Americas Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2008.
In the Americas Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. The four teams in Group IV played in a single Round-robin tournament. The top two teams were promoted to the Americas Zone Group III in 2009. All other teams remained in Group IV.
| CRC | HAI | BER | ISV | ||
| 1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–0 | ||
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| 2 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 |
Bermuda 0 |
Country Club, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 16 July 2008 Hard |
Costa Rica 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Haiti 2 |
Country Club, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 16 July 2008 Hard |
U.S. Virgin Islands 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bermuda 3 |
Country Club, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 17 July 2008 Hard |
U.S. Virgin Islands 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Costa Rica 2 |
Country Club, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 17 July 2008 Hard |
Haiti 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bermuda 0 |
Country Club, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 18 July 2008 Hard |
Haiti 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Costa Rica 2 |
Country Club, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 18 July 2008 Hard |
U.S. Virgin Islands 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Second-round play-offs | First-round play-offs | First Round | Second Round | |||||||||||||||
| Kaohsiung, Taiwan (hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Almaty, Kazakhstan (indoor hard) | 1 | Townsville, Australia (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Almaty, Kazakhstan (indoor hard) | 3 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Astana, Kazakhstan (indoor clay) | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 0 | New Delhi, India (grass) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manila, Philippines (indoor clay) | 4 | 3 | New Delhi, India (grass) | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Manila, Philippines (hard) | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Play-offs | First Round | Second Round | Third Round | |||||||||||||||
| Beijing, China (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hong Kong, China (hard) | 0 | Jakarta, Indonesia (hard) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Jakarta, Indonesia (hard) | 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | New Plymouth, New Zealand (indoor hard) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Muscat, Oman (hard) | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Muscat, Oman (hard) | 4 | 5 | Mishref, Kuwait (hard) | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mishref, Kuwait (hard) | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Group A | PAK | SYR | VIE | UAE | |
| 1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Group B | MAS | IRI | SRI | TJK | |
| 1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||
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| 2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | ||
| 4 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
Top two teams advance to 1st–4th Play-off, bottom two teams advance to 5th–8th Play-off. Scores in italics carried over from pools.
| 1st–4th Play-off | PAK | MAS | SYR | IRI | |
| 1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| 5th–8th Play-off | SRI | TJK | VIE | UAE | |
| 1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 |
| Pool A | SIN | MYA | BHR | IRQ | BRU | |
| 1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 3–0 | ||
| 5 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Pool B | KSA | BAN | JOR | TKM | MGL | QAT | |
| 1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||
| 5 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | ||
| 6 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| Second Round Play-offs | First Round Play-offs | First round | Second round | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dubrovnik, Croatia (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| bye | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Montecatini, Italy (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Skopje, Macedonia (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Skopje, Macedonia (indoor clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kreuzlingen, Switzerland (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Minsk, Belarus (hard) | Minsk, Belarus (indoor carpet) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||||||
| Minsk, Belarus (hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||||||
| Bratislava, Slovakia (indoor clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| bye | 2 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| bye | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Play-offs | First round | Second round | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Hanko, Finland (clay) | Johannesburg, South Africa (hard) | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Helsinki, Finland (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Algiers, Algeria (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Thessaloniki, Greece (clay) | Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay) | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 5 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cherkasy, Ukraine (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 0 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cairo, Egypt (clay) | Dublin, Ireland (grass) | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dublin, Ireland (indoor carpet) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine (indoor hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nicosia, Cyprus (hard) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tunis, Tunisia (clay) | Porto, Portugal (clay) | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | 4 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Estoril, Portugal (clay) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2008.
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Group III was split into two tournaments. One tournament was held in Tennis Club Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, April 9–13, on outdoor clay courts, while the other was held in Master Class Tennis and Fitness Club, Yerevan, Armenia, May 7–11, also on outdoor clay courts.
Botswana and Nigeria withdrew from the Plovdiv tournament. They remained in Group III in 2009. The six remaining teams in the Plovdiv tournament played in a round-robin format. The top two teams were promoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2009. The bottom two teams were demoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group IV in 2009.
| Zone A | BUL | MNE | TUR | MAD | CIV | ZIM | |
| 1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 5 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | ||
| 6 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
Bulgaria 3 |
Tennis Club Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 8 April 2008 Clay |
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| 1 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
| Pool B | BIH | LTU | EST | GHA | |
| 1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
Scores in italics carried over from pools.
| 1st–4th Play-off | MDA | LTU | NOR | BIH | |
| 1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| 5th–8th Play-off | EST | AND | ARM | GHA | |
| 1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 |
Note: Tie between Bosnia & Herzegovina, Lithuania, and Estonia (Pool B) broken on number of rubbers won. Tie between Andorra, Armenia, and Ghana (6th–8th) broken on number of rubbers won.
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 2008.
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were four different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier. Group III was split into two tournaments. One tournament was held in Tennis Club Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, April 9–13, on outdoor clay courts, while the other was held in Master Class Tennis and Fitness Club, Yerevan, Armenia, May 7–11, also on outdoor clay courts.
The eight teams in the Yerevan tournament were split into two pools and played in a round-robin format. The top two teams of each pool advanced to the promotion pool, from which the two top teams were promoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2009. The bottom two teams of each group were placed in the relegation pool, from which the two bottom teams were demoted to the Europe/Africa Zone Group IV in 2009.
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| 3 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 |
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| 1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |
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The top two teams from each of Pools A and B advanced to the Promotion pool. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.
(scores in italics carried over from Groups)
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| 2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||
| 3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
Moldova and Lithuania promoted to Group II for 2009.
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The bottom two teams from Pools A and B were placed in the relegation group. Results and points from games against the opponent from the preliminary round were carried forward.
(scores in italics carried over from Groups)
| 5th–8th Play-off | EST | AND | ARM | GHA | |
| 1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
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| 2 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2–1 |
Note: Tie between Andorra, Armenia, and Ghana broken on number of rubbers won.
Armenia and Ghana relegated to Group IV for 2009.
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| 2 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 3–0 | ||
| 3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | ||
| 4 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–3 |