2 and claimed his first Grand Slam title by beating Djokovic in the final at Flushing Meadows in September, leads a Russian team that includes No. Open champion Daniil Medvedev headline the rosters announced Monday for the Davis Cup Finals.ĭjokovic, a 20-time major champion who fell one win short of a calendar-year Grand Slam in 2021, is joined on Serbia's squad by Filip Krajinovic, Dusan Lajovic, Laslo Djere and Miomir Kekmanovic. "We start with tough ties against Sweden and Kazakhstan, and all the teams that qualified are very strong, but we are heading to Spain with plenty of confidence that we can achieve our goal." Recent Davis Cup championsĭjokovic, Medvedev highlight tourney rosters "We came so close to becoming world champions two years ago and, although we know it will be a great challenge, we believe that with Felix, Denis, Vasek, Brayden and Peter, we have a team capable of going all the way," team captain Frank Dancevic said in a news release. The 31-year-old Pospisil will be counted on to provide veteran leadership in his 21st Davis Cup event. Canada loses bid for its first-ever Davis Cup title, falling to Spain."The mixed team event has a huge amount of potential, and that's something that we want to capitalise on. "Gerard really wants to be innovative, he wants to really provide an incentive for the players to come and do something different, which is not week in week out on tour events. "We've just had expressions of interest from almost 10 cities that are keen to put on the Hopman Cup. "A winner takes all with a big pot of prize money, that's something that's under discussion," Fairweather added. Kosmos is investing $80m (£63m) a year into the competition, which includes $20m in prize money and a $44m licence fee to the ITF.Īn additional $45m a year has been earmarked to develop other formats, such as a mixed team competition and a winner takes all event. There are areas in particular on the media rights side that have a huge amount of room for growth." "I think if you look at the business plan, the fourth year is really where we as partners are hoping to see this turn into a profit making venture. Barcelona defender Gerard Pique is founder of Kosmos who are attempting to remodel the Davis Cup Deciding points at deuce, and a 'match tiebreak' rather than a third set, should mitigate to some extent a sequence of extremely late finishes.įairweather also revealed they expect to lose money for the first three years. While the event remains just one week long, doubles matches may be shortened as they are on the ATP Tour. The Spanish capital is keen to extend its two years as hosts, and Fairweather says the ITF is sympathetic to the idea of staying in Madrid for an extra year. The immediate future of the Davis Cup Finals, however, may be Madrid. From an ITF point of view, wouldn't it be fantastic to also have a joint men's and women's World Cup together? That would be sensational. "But if you've got Novak saying that, that hopefully opens the door for a discussion with the ATP. "Obviously we have to be sensitive to all different parties," Fairweather said in an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. The 16-time Grand Slam champion, who is president of the ATP Player Council, said he did not believe the Davis Cup and the ATP Cup could "coexist six weeks apart" in the long term. The ITF will be encouraged by the comments Novak Djokovic made earlier in the week. I don't think we should be really competing among ourselves." Wouldn't it be wonderful for tennis to have one massive team event? A year ago at the ATP Finals we had some of these discussions, so we're hoping to pick that up again. "It's not getting any easier by the addition of events. Canada beat Australia to book semi-final spot.Smith faces 'difficult' Murray decision.Great Britain reach last eight with win over Kazakhstan."The calendar is probably the number one issue for everyone in tennis," according to Kelly Fairweather of the International Tennis Federation, which has licensed the Davis Cup to Gerard Pique's investment group Kosmos. A rival men's team competition will be staged in just six weeks' time, when the inaugural ATP Cup takes place in Australia.
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