Davis Cup: Germany plays qualification 2022 in Brazil

The Davis 2019 Cup is the 108th version of this male expert tennis tournament by countries. She is won by the Spanish group that defeats Canada in the final.

The German tennis professionals must qualify for the upcoming Davis Cup finals about an away game in Brazil. In addition, the organizers presented an innovation at the end of the final round.

The draw on Sunday in Madrid showed research of the qualifying round for the 4th and 5th Mar. On paper, the selection of the German Tennis federal (DUB) after the semi-final deduction is favored this season, Brazil has in Thiago Monterey (ATP-89.) Currently, just a top 100 player.

In addition to this year's finalists Croatia and Russia, Great Britain and Serbia are already set for the next round, which were assigned to Wildcards on Sunday. The twelve winners come from the qualifying round in March.

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Tennis: Davis Cup finals in the future in five cities

By contrast, the final round of the Davis Cup will be extended to five host cities from the coming year. David Haggerty, President of the Tennis World Association ITF, and Eric Rojas, Managing Director of the Exterior Cosmos Tennis, is known. The most important team competition in the men's tennis, however, is reduced for the final round at the end of the year from 18 to 16 teams.

First, there should be four preliminary round groups in four different cities, after only two days break, the K.O. round starts with the quarterfinals at a neutral place. The organizers of the group stage are decided in mid-March after the qualifying round, even the host of the K.O.-Round is not fixed yet.

Most recently, rumors had given that they should be held by 2026 in Abu Dhabi. It gives a preferred option, Rojas said only, but nothing signed or proclaimed. A decision should fall in the coming weeks.

The first two ends of the Reformed Competition took place in Madrid, this year, there was also preliminary round in Innsbruck and Turin. Football professional Gerard Piqué From FC Barcelona, ​​in 2018, had acquired the rights of the existing Davis Cup since 1900 Davis Cup with its investment firm Cosmos for 25 years for allegedly three billion dollars.

Tennis-Legend Hewitt: You break the competition

Instead of four rounds distributed over the entire year with home and away games in the world group, there has been a final tournament at the end of the year with a preliminary round and a K.O. phase, each with two individually and a double over two winning rates.

The new format had caused a lot of criticism, Olympic champion Alexander Zeal renounced a participation as a loud opponent both in 2019 and this year. On the rumors of a change to Abu Dhabi, the Australian team captain and former world ranking Clayton Hewitt had already reacted with a great incomprehension.

If you sell the soul of Davis Cup for another five years to the Middle East, I find that ridiculous, and you really break the competition, said the two-time grand slam winner last week.

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Davis Cup: The winners of the last ten years

Output | Final location | Winner | Final opponent | Result - 2019 | Madrid, Spain | Spain | Canada | 2: 0 2018 | Villeneuve-d'ASC, France | Croatia | France | 3: 1 2017 | Villeneuve-d'ASC, France | France | Belgium | 3: 2 2016 | Zagreb, Croatia | Argentina | Croatia | 3: 2 2015 | Ghent, Belgium | Great Britain | Belgium | 3: 1 2014 | Villeneuve-d'ASC, France | Switzerland | France | 3: 1 2013 | Belgrade, Serbia | Czech Republic | Serbia | 3: 2 2012 | Prague, Czech Republic | Czech Republic | Spain | 3: 2 2011 | Seville, Spain | Spain | Argentina | 3: 1