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Davis tie at Calcutta

The Asia-Oceania Group One Davis Cup tie between India and China will be held at Calcutta from April 2-4. Honorary secretary of the All-India Tennis Association (AITA), Ramesh Desai, told The Indian Express , "since this tie is important for us to avoidrelegation, the players did not want to play China on hard court.” The hard courts of Chennai and Delhi were earlier being considered as possible venues Chennai, in particular, since Paes and Bhupathi will be playing the Gold Flake Open, the day after the Davis Cup tie, in Chennai. Moreover, the Indians will be spending about three weeks on hard courts in the United States, playing the two Super-9 tournaments, Indianwells and Lipton at Key Biscayne.

India will have to beat China to avoid relegation to the Asian Zone.