Hong Kong pull out of Davis Cup tie in Pakistan over security fears
Hong Kong have pulled back from their Davis Cup tie against Pakistan in Islamabad refering to security concerns, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said in an announcement on Tuesday.
Pakistan have been compelled to play home Davis Cup ties in the Asia/Oceania aggregate abroad since 2010 due to the security circumstance in the nation, yet global tennis returned a month ago.
Pakistan beat Iran 3-2 in a first-round tie in Islamabad in what was the main Davis Cup coordinate in the nation in 12 years.
Hong Kong had tested the Davis Cup Committee's choice to support coordinates in Pakistan, and pulled back after an autonomous tribunal deciding that the tie ought to proceed.
"The ITF laments and consciously can't help contradicting the choice of Hong Kong, China to default its up and coming Davis Cup tie against Pakistan," the alliance said.
"The ITF takes the security of all players, group faculty, authorities and onlookers genuinely. We are completely positive about the security hazard administration methodology we have set up."
Pakistan have progressed to the third round of Asia/Oceania amass II accordingly of Hong Kong's withdrawal and will have the champ of the tie between the Philippines and Thailand.
The case will be sent back to the autonomous tribunal to decide whether Hong Kong have ruptured competition controls.
Pakistan has been to a great extent kept from global game since outfitted shooters assaulted a transport conveying the Sri Lankan cricket group in Lahore in 2009. Six players were harmed while two regular folks and six security authorities were executed in that assault.
A visit by Zimbabwe's cricket group in 2015 was practically upset when a suicide aircraft executed two security authorities almost a stadium.
Cricket is by a wide margin the most mainstream game in Pakistan, yet their national group have played all their home matches at unbiased scenes abroad as far back as the 2009 assault.
Prior this month, a few abroad cricketers pulled back from Pakistan's residential Twenty20 cricket association last after their cricket board reported the match would be hung on home soil.
The last, which was the first-historically speaking Pakistan Super League match to be played in the nation, proceeded in the eastern city of Lahore on March 5.
Pakistan have been compelled to play home Davis Cup ties in the Asia/Oceania aggregate abroad since 2010 due to the security circumstance in the nation, yet global tennis returned a month ago.
Pakistan beat Iran 3-2 in a first-round tie in Islamabad in what was the main Davis Cup coordinate in the nation in 12 years.
Hong Kong had tested the Davis Cup Committee's choice to support coordinates in Pakistan, and pulled back after an autonomous tribunal deciding that the tie ought to proceed.
"The ITF laments and consciously can't help contradicting the choice of Hong Kong, China to default its up and coming Davis Cup tie against Pakistan," the alliance said.
"The ITF takes the security of all players, group faculty, authorities and onlookers genuinely. We are completely positive about the security hazard administration methodology we have set up."
Pakistan have progressed to the third round of Asia/Oceania amass II accordingly of Hong Kong's withdrawal and will have the champ of the tie between the Philippines and Thailand.
The case will be sent back to the autonomous tribunal to decide whether Hong Kong have ruptured competition controls.
Pakistan has been to a great extent kept from global game since outfitted shooters assaulted a transport conveying the Sri Lankan cricket group in Lahore in 2009. Six players were harmed while two regular folks and six security authorities were executed in that assault.
A visit by Zimbabwe's cricket group in 2015 was practically upset when a suicide aircraft executed two security authorities almost a stadium.
Cricket is by a wide margin the most mainstream game in Pakistan, yet their national group have played all their home matches at unbiased scenes abroad as far back as the 2009 assault.
Prior this month, a few abroad cricketers pulled back from Pakistan's residential Twenty20 cricket association last after their cricket board reported the match would be hung on home soil.
The last, which was the first-historically speaking Pakistan Super League match to be played in the nation, proceeded in the eastern city of Lahore on March 5.
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