They need to beat Thailand to advance to the World Group finals.
Five-times world champions Brazil plummeted further down the FIFA rankings as they hit a record low of 22nd place on Thursday, leaving them sandwiched between Ghana and Mali.
It has sought the ITF's approval to field the US-born Indian.
Japan clinched the tie 3-2 after Gouichi Motomura beat Leander Paes in the deciding rubber of the Asia-Oceania zone Group One second round tie.
He will take on Gouichi Motomura in the opening singles, while Leander Paes meets Takao Suzuki, in the Davis Cup tie against Japan, from April 9 to 11.
Mahesh Bhupathi, Prakash Amritraj, Rohan Bopanna and Harsh Mankad are the other members of the team for the April 9 - 11 tie.
Pakistan's tennis authorities are upset over the ITF's decision to change the venue of their group one tie against New Zealand from Lahore for security reasons.
The Swedes will be the seeded team while India has the right to decide on the surface for the September 23 - 25 tie.
Jie Zheng beat Rushmi Chakravarthi 6-3, 6-0 and Na Li tamed Shikha Uberoi 6-1, 6-2 to give China a 2-0 lead.
India blanked Singapore, primarily junior players, 3-0 in the Asia Oceania zone group 1 tie.
India's Davis Cup captain will get Rs 250,000 for his fine showing in the Davis Cup match against New Zealand earlier this month.
The former world No.1 pair gave India a 2-1 lead over New Zealand in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group 1 first round tie after winning the doubles.
India and New Zealand were tied 1-1 after the opening singles in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania zone Group 1 first round match.
Mankad is likely to be named India's number one player for the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I first round tie against New Zealand.
The Indian junior Fed Cup team has qualified for the World Group after finishing third in the Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying event following a 2-1 win over New Zealand in the Play-off, in New Delhi on Saturday.
Prakash Amritraj beat Wang Yu of China to give India a 2-0 lead in the Davis Cup.
Harsh Mankad packed off Sun Peng in straight sets to give India a 1-0 lead in the Davis Cup tie against China.
The Indian Davis Cup captain feels the two-month injury lay-off will not hamper his performance in the Asia-Oceania zone match from March 4 to 6.
unseeded Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the World junior tennis Asia/Oceania qualifying tournament
The draw for the September 19-21 play-offs was announced on Wednesday.
The draw for the Davis Cup tie against Japan pits Paes against Takao Suzuki in other singles.
India meet Japan in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I first round tie in Delhi, from February 7 to 9.
A profligate Yuki Bhambri missed chances galore in a tame defeat against world number 40 Jiri Vesley as India lost the Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie against top seeds Czech Republic 1-3.
Andreas Seppi experienced some early hiccups before getting past Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2 in the opening rubber, while 22-year-old Matteo Berrettini made a winning Davis Cup debut, cruising past India number one Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-4, 6-3.
They lost their doubles match against Japan, G K Swetha and Ashmita Easwaramurthy going down to Ayumi Morita and Emiko in straight sets. The teams were tied 1-1 after the singles.
Sanaa Bhambri and Tara Iyer gave India a 2-1 victory over Korea in the Asia-Oceania tournament.
The Indian team won both its matches, against New Zealand and Japan, to top Group 3 in the Asia-Oceania zonal qualifier.
The team made the grade after finishing third in the Asia-Oceania zonal qualifiers in Jakarta last week.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday.
Sumit Prakash Gupta and Rupesh Roy gave India a 2-0 lead in the Asia-Oceania Junior Davis Cup.
The showers started just before the start of the second singles match between India's Rohan Bopanna and Alistair Hunt.
New Zealand captain Glenn Wilson said the inexperience of his team on grass would be the biggest problem in the Davis Cup tie in Kolkata.
