Still, top teams expect to win qualifiers played at home.
Each of the four previous qualifiers played between these teams on Jamaican soil ended as ties.
The Americans have not been the only ones to struggle there: in the more than seventy World Cup qualifiers played at Azteca, Mexico has lost only once.
As the teams' seeding are based on the ICC T20 rankings as of October last year, the top eight sides plus the best-two teams from the qualifiers played between 16-21 March will make up the Super 10 stage.
Finally, in the very last qualifier played anywhere for this World Cup, a salute to Washington Sebastián Abreu.
They are joined by Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa and the West Indies, who made it to the World Cup through the qualifier played in Bangladesh in 2011.
Hedblom, who made the field as a European qualifier, played his first seven holes at 3-under-par to match the early leader Phil Mickelson's 18-hole total.
Kevin Konstan scored in the eighth minute as host Guinea beat Nigeria, 1-0, in a qualifier played after FIFA temporarily lifted Nigeria's suspension.
Martinez beat Ai Sugiyama, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, and Marrero, a 17-year-old qualifier playing in her first Grand Slam event, beat Rossana De los Rios, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Kafelnikov needed two hours to post a 6-7 (3), 7-6 (6), 6-3 victory over Oscar Burrieza, a Spanish qualifier playing only his second tour event.
