/ 15 May 2000

DE BEER TO OPEN FED CUP CAMPAIGN

SURINA de Beer, playing in her first-ever Fed Cup match, will get South Africa’s campaign off the ground in La Manga on Tuesday. De Beer, ranked 170th, faces up to Greece’s Evagelia Roussi, ranked 557th in her first match as South Africa’s number two singles player. South Africa are seeded seventh for the tournament and are drawn in Pool B with second seeds Hungary, Greece and Latvia. The team faces Greece on Tuesday, Latvia on Wednesday and go down the wire with Hungary on Thursday.