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Youngest Players Age Yrs/Dys Player D.O.B. First Day Played Nationality v Opponent Player (Years Played) Tie 12 360 13 199 13 270 13 353 14 7 18 Jun 64 2 Jan 73 2 Jul 86 1 Aug 72 21 Mar 81 13 Jun 77 20 Jul 86 28 Mar 00 20 Jul 86 28 Mar 95 GRE v POR EGY v BEL GEO v YUG EGY v KOR PUR v BAH Denise Panagopoulou (1977-83) Nahla Mohammed* (1986) Salome Devidze (2000-04) Shahira Tawfik (1986-95) Vilmarie Castellvi (1995-06) FC-1R C-1R EA2-RR FC-1R AM2-RR 14 14 30 Apr 87 14 May 01 BOT v TUR Tapiwa Marobela (2001-04) EA2-RR 14 25 10 Apr 84 5 May 98 ETH v LUX Seble Woldegebriel (2001-04) EA2-RR FC-PR1 14 31 17 Jun 77 18 Jul 91 MAS v MEX Chern-Yi Chiew (1991-95) 14 34 12 Apr 87 16 May 01 ESA v BAR Ana-Gloria Osorio-Pena* (2001-02) AM2-RR 14 44 7 Jan 82 20 Feb 96 UZB v POC Iroda Tulyaganova* (1996-06) AO2-RR 14 44 9 Mar 82 22 Apr 96 CRO v GEO Mirjana Lucic (1996-98) EA1-RR *Denotes that the player played doubles in their first tie Note: players must now be aged 14 and over to compete at any level of Fed Cup Tamira Paszek (AUT) is the youngest player to compete in a World Group tie, playing singles for Austria v France in the 2005 Fed Cup first round aged 14 years, 138 days. She became the youngest player to win a World Group rubber when winning two singles rubbers against Switzerland in a Fed Cup World Group play-off tie later that year aged 14 years, 215 days. Mirjana Lucic (CRO) won two singles rubbers for Croatia v Chile in a 1996 World Group II play-off tie aged 14 years, 122 days. Oldest Players Age Yrs/Dys Player D.O.B. First Day Played Nationality v Opponent Player (Years Played) Tie 52 162 47 267 46 85 46 70 43 60 30 Nov 43 18 Oct 56 18 Mar 21 18 Feb 54 27 Dec 55 10 May 96 11 Jul 04 11 Jun 67 28 Apr 00 25 Feb 99 BER v JAM USA v AUT DEN v FRG FIJ v IRQ HAI v CUB Gill Butterfield* (1996) Martina Navratilova* (1975-04) Milly Vagn-Nielsen (1967) Walena White* (1990-00) Genevieve Etienne* (1999) AM2-RR WG-QF FC-2R AO2-RR AM2-RR 43 44 12 Apr 25 26 May 68 POR v FRA Peggy Brixhe* (1968) FC-2R 42 300 6 Oct 44 2 Aug 87 BUL v INA Yulia Berberian* (1968-97) FC-2R 42 190 9 Nov 54 18 May 97 BER v ANT Debra Darrell* (1997) AM2-RR 42 135 28 Sep 1970 1 Oct 89 JPN v RUS Kimiko Date-Krumm (1989-2013) WG-1R 42 101 27 May 22 5 Sep 64 JPN v RSA Reiko Miyagi* (1964) FC-1R 41 291 19 Nov 22 5 Sep 64 CAN v AUS Louise Brown* (1963-64) FC-QF *Denotes that the player played doubles in their last tie. Gill Butterfield (BER) is the oldest player to play Fed Cup, losing a doubles rubber for Bermuda v Jamaica in Americas Zone Group II in 1996 at the age of 52 years 162 days. Having won a doubles rubber the day before v Costa Rica, she is also the oldest player to win a Fed Cup rubber. Martina Navratilova (USA) is the oldest player to compete in a World Group tie, when losing the doubles rubber for USA v Austria in the 2004 World Group quarterfinal aged 47 years, 267 days. Having won the doubles rubber against Slovenia in the 2004 first round tie, she is also the oldest player to win a World Group rubber aged 47 years, 190 days. 2013 Fed Cup Final Media Guide | Player Records & Statistics 58