On the day of the 2021 Davis Cup Final, tournament organizers have already delivered news of the next edition. On the one hand, they confirmed that they will repeat the multi-site model that will go from three to five sites, although they have not yet revealed what it will be. The two invited teams, namely Serbia and Great Britain, have also been announced, as well as the 12 qualifying matches to be held on 4 and 5 March, in which Spain will play Romania.
Among the other crosses brought by France, Ecuador, the United States, Colombia, Brazil, Germany, Argentina and the Czech Republic, which were conducted in the presence of USAF President Dave Haggerty and FIFA Director General. 2021 Finals Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, three-time winner of the competition.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Cosmos, the main sponsor of the Davis Cup, have announced that there will be several group stage venues and a semi-final and final venue, but no country names have been announced. which will host the tournament next year.
The Davis Cup, which will complete its third edition in the new format next year, is changing its formula once again. It will be with sixteen teams instead of the eighteen who participated in 2021 and will have an initial four-group round with as many teams as possible, instead of six out of three.
Davis Cup 2022
Four cities will host the qualifiers and the fifth final stage
There will be multiple venues for this initial tour. As happened this year, where Turin, Innsbruck and Madrid hosted the group stage, in the 2022 edition, there will be four cities that will stage the first round of the event. The top of each quartet will join the visitors (Serbia and Great Britain) and the 2021 finalists (Russia and Croatia) to move to a different stage to play the semi-finals and final.
Enrique Rojas, General Manager of Cosmos, indicated that there are several options and interested cities, but the decision will be announced in the coming weeks after evaluating the candidates, although he confirmed that they will be at the same height. In recent days, choosing Abu Dhabi to host the 2022 final was a foregone conclusion, but the CEO of Cosmos has not confirmed this. Enrique Roja admitted that she is one of the candidates, with whom negotiations have been conducted for a long time, despite the fact that the agreement was not signed. Anyway, it will be decided in the coming weeks, next January.
2022 Davis Cup Preliminary Qualifiers
- France and Ecuador
- Spain and Romania
- Finland-Belgium
- United States and Colombia
- Holland and Canada
- Brazil and Germany
- Slovakia and Italy
- Australia-Hungary
- Norway and Kazakhstan
- Sweden and Japan
- Argentina – Czech Republic
- Korea and Austria.
Along with the qualifying rounds leading up to the finals, the World Group I and II competitions have also been withdrawn, also on 4 and 5 March 2022.
First world group
Chile – Slovenia
India and Denmark
Uzbekistan and Turkey
Portugal and Poland
Tony’s Bosya Herzegovina
Israel and South Africa
New Zealand and Uruguay
Ukraine – Barbados
Pakistan and Lithuania
Peru – Bolivia
Switzerland – Lebanon
Belarus and Mexico
The second world group
China and Ireland
Dominican R-Vietnam
Thailand and Lithuania
Guatemala and China Taipei
Indonesia and Venezuela
Estonia and the Pacific Oceania
Egypt-Cyprus
Greece – Jamaica
Morocco-Monaco
Bulgaria and Paraguay
Zimbabwe and El Salvador
Benin and Hong Kong.
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