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.
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
- American Samoa
- Cook Islands
- Fiji (competed independently in the 1990s)
- Guam (1995–2017 and compete independently since 2020[3])
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- New Caledonia
- Nauru
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands[4]
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tahiti
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Oceania Tennis Federation members never represented
See also
- Oceania
- Pacific Oceania Davis Cup team
- Pacific Oceania Fed Cup team
- Guam Fed Cup team
- Guam Davis Cup team
- Fiji Fed Cup team
- Fiji Davis Cup team
- International Tennis Federation
References
- Davis Cup teams
- Sports clubs and teams established in 1995
- Sport in Papua New Guinea
- Sport in Fiji
- Sport in Samoa
- Sport in Nauru
- Sport in Tonga
- Sport in Tuvalu
- Sport in Tahiti
- Sport in Kiribati
- Tennis in the United States
- Tennis in France
- Tennis in Samoa
- Tennis teams
- Tennis in Oceania
- Tennis in Fiji
- Tennis in Guam
- Tennis in Palau
- Tennis in Papua New Guinea
- Tennis in the Marshall Islands
- Tennis in Nauru
- Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Zone
- 1995 establishments in Oceania
- Sport in Oceania
- Tennis stubs