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The Hindu
18-06-2025
- Sport
- The Hindu
Billie Jean King Cup play-off draw on Thursday
The draw for the Billie Jean King Cup World Group play-off women's tennis event is scheduled to be made in London on Thursday. Unlike the last time when India played Latvia in the play-off in April 2021 that saw Jelena Ostapenko lead her team to a 3-1 victory, it will be a three-nation competition this time, spread over seven groups. Seven nations, Canada, Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands have been seeded. The next bunch will have Romania, Switzerland, Belgium, Slovenia, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia. India and New Zealand which qualified from the Asia-Oceania zone will be along with Argentina, Turkey, Denmark, Croatia and Portugal. Each of the seven pool of three teams will have one country drawn from each of the three groups. The host will also be decided by the ITF. The three teams in each group will compete on a league basis. The topper of each of the seven groups will make it to the World Group qualifier. The rest will return to group-1 in their zones.
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ContainerPort Group expands Southern California dray network with acquisition
ContainerPort Group announced that its parent, World Group, has acquired Dray Alliance, making the combined operation one of the largest dray providers to the Southern California ports. Founded in 2018, Long Beach, California-based Dray Alliance provides end-to-end drayage management in the Los Angeles and Long Beach markets. The addition of Dray Alliance expands ContainerPort Group's carrier network and improves its technology platform with enhanced real-time tracking and other automation tools. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 'Dray Alliance has built an incredible platform that aligns with our commitment to innovating and digitizing, while maintaining the reliability and service that our customers know and expect,' said Joey Palmer, president of the company and co-CEO at World Group, in a news release. 'By bringing their technology into CPG, we're unlocking new efficiencies and expanding our ability to serve shippers with smarter, tech-enabled solutions.' Shippers and carriers served by Dray Alliance will continue to use the company's platform as ContainerPort Group integrates its customer base. 'By combining CPG's scale, reliability, and expertise with our cutting-edge technology, we are creating a best-in-class solution that benefits customers, carriers, and the entire industry,' said Dray Alliance founder and CEO Steve Wen. Cleveland-based World Group is the parent of multiple international cargo transportation and logistics companies, including NVOCC freight forwarder UWL and warehousing and distribution provider World Distribution Services. More FreightWaves articles by Todd Maiden: ArcBest takes on TL freight to fill empty capacity Deutsche Bank eyes industrial rebound, endorses these transportation stocks XPO sees improvement in February, tonnage still down y/y The post ContainerPort Group expands Southern California dray network with acquisition appeared first on FreightWaves. Sign in to access your portfolio
BBC News
06-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Britain face Poland in Davis Cup relegation play-off
Great Britain have been handed an away tie against Poland as they look to avoid relegation from the top tier of the Davis Smith's side, seeded fourth in the draw, face the unseeded Poles in a World Group I best-of-five tie in winners will progress to the first qualifying phase of the 2026 event and maintain their chances of reaching the eight-team finals later that are likely to be led by 2021 Wimbledon semi-finalist Hubert Hurkacz, who is currently their only player ranked inside the men's top face the play-off tie after losing to Japan in this year's first qualifying injured US Open semi-finalist Jack Draper, a makeshift British side were beaten 3-2 - jeopardising their place in the top tier of the men's team draw for the World Group I ties was held on Thursday - a week later than originally planned because of Chile's protests following their controversial tie against Belgium. Chile still want Davis Cup replay after Garin 'attacked' The first qualifying round tie descended into chaos when Chile's Cristian Garin was knocked over by his celebrating Belgian opponent Zizou Chilean Tennis Federation (Fetech) claimed Garin had been "attacked". Tennis Belgium insisted Bergs was careless with "no malicious intent whatsoever".Chile, who lost the tie after Garin refused to continue playing, have demanded a replay "under fair conditions" or a wildcard into November's eight-team Davis Cup Finals. The South American nation were awarded neither during a preliminary hearing with an independent panel convened by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).However, the case is still ongoing. Fetech said it has not withdrawn their claim, which also called for Bergs to be had initially also asked for the World Cup I draw to be postponed until a resolution was Fetech withdrew that demand after the meeting on 27 February, saying it did not want to harm the "interests of the other countries".As a result, the draw took place with Chile among the seeded teams and they have been placed against Luxembourg in the play-off.
