The Davis Cup, one of the oldest competitions in the world created in 1900, will change again.
It is Gilles Moretton, the president of the French Tennis Federation (FFT), who confirms it: the Board of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) has ended the partnership with Kosmos Global Tennis, the company of the former footballer, Gerard Pique.
“I would like to inform you that the ITF Board has taken the decision to end the partnership with Kosmos Tennis, writes the boss of French tennis.
I have always fought against this format of the Davis Cup, an institution in our sport.
This is a great victory for tennis.
The ITF confirms that it will manage the qualifying round and the final phase of the competition of the 2023 edition, these will take place as planned.
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What a failure on arrival.
So many tensions, conflicts and lifeless encounters to finally find themselves in the middle of the ford with this feeling of having lost 4 years.
We want to say to ourselves that this is a new start for a beautiful story.
Go Blues!!!
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— frederic viard (@fredericviard) January 12, 2023
A message from Gilles Moretton unveiled this Thursday evening on social networks by BeIN Sports journalist Frédéric Viard, and confirmed to us by the FFT.
The partnership between the ITF and Kosmos began in 2018 in controversy.
Davis Cup purists were indignant at the change in format of one of the key events in the world of tennis.
Indeed, as the event ran throughout the calendar year, the competition had morphed into a one-week, one-venue event.
According to the same sources, the 2023 edition will be taken over by the ITF with qualifying phases and a final phase as in previous editions, under the Kosmos Global Tennis era.
It remains to be seen whether the ITF will want to change this much-maligned formula.
What will happen for 2024?
Will she go back to the old formula or invent a new one?
This year, France must face Hungary on February 3 and 4 to try to qualify for the final phase which will take place in Malaga (Spain).