India Fed Cup team

India
Captain Zeeshan Ali
ITF ranking 38 Increase 1 (16 November 2015)
Colors blue & white
First year 1991
Years played 24
Ties played (W–L) 93 (51–42)
Best finish Zonal Group I Promotional Play-off (2006)
Most total wins Nirupama Sanjeev (29–14)
Most singles wins Nirupama Sanjeev (20–8)
Most doubles wins Sania Mirza (11-5)
Rushmi Chakravarthi (11–11)
Best doubles team Manisha Malhotra /
Nirupama Vaidyanathan (6–0)
Most ties played Nirupama Sanjeev (31)
Most years played Sania Mirza (10)

The India Fed Cup team represents India in the WTA & ITF Fed Cup professional tennis competition and are governed by the All India Tennis Association. They will compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group I in 2016.

History

India competed in its first Fed Cup in 1977, but did not compete again until 1991. Since 1991, India has been competing annually (except 1993). India's best result was reaching the Asia/Oceania Group I final in 2006.

In 2004, Manisha Malhotra and Sania Mirza broke the record for playing the longest tiebreak (21-19) in their doubles match against Uzbekistani pair Vlada Ekshibarova and Ivanna Israilova.

Current team (2018)

Squad representing India in the 2018 Fed Cup
PlayerWTA RankingYears PlayedSingles W-LDoubles W-LTotal W-L
Ankita Raina#181 (Singles)
#190 (Doubles)		6 (2013–)11–74–515–12
Karman Kaur Thandi#263 (Singles)
#295 (Doubles)		2 (2017–)3-41–14–5
Prarthana Thombare#161 (Doubles)4 (2014–16, 2018-)7-26–413-6
Pranjala Yadlapalli#355 (Doubles)1 (2018–)0–01-01-0

Notable Former members

See also

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