On the day of the final of the Davis Cup 2021, the tournament organizers have already advanced news for the next edition. On the one hand, they have confirmed that they will repeat the multi-site model that will go from three to five sites, although they have not yet revealed which ones they will be. The invited teams, which will be Serbia and Great Britain, have also been announced, as well as the matches of the 12 qualifiers, which will be played on March 4 and 5, in which Spain has been paired with Romania.
France-Ecuador, United States-Colombia, Brazil-Germany and Argentina-Czech Republic are other of the crosses that the draw brought, carried out in the presence of the president of the International Federation, the American Dave Haggerty, and the director of the 2021 finals. the Spanish Fernando Verdasco, three times winner of the competition.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Kosmos, the main sponsor of the Davis Cup, announced that there will be several venues for the group stage and a venue for the semifinals and final, but did not make public the names of any of the countries that will host. the tournament next year.
The Davis Cup, which will complete its third edition with the new format in the coming year, once again alters its formula. It will be with sixteen teams instead of the eighteen that have participated in 2021 and they will have an initial round with four groups of as many teams, instead of six of three.
Davis Cup 2022
Four cities will host the qualifiers and a fifth the final phase
There will be multiple venues for this initial round. As has happened this year, where Turin, Innsbruck and Madrid hosted the group stage, in the 2022 edition, there will be four cities that will organize the first round of the event. The top of each quartet will join the two guests (Serbia and Great Britain) and the two finalists from 2021 (Russia and Croatia) to move to a different stage to play the semi-finals and the final.
Enric Rojas, general director of Kosmos, pointed out that there are several options and interested cities but that the decision will be made public in the coming weeks after evaluating the candidates, although he stressed that they will be places at the same altitude. In recent days, Abu Dhabi’s choice to host the 2022 finals was taken for granted, but the CEO of Kosmos did not confirm it. Enric Roja recognized that she is one of the candidates, with whom negotiations have been held for a long time although the agreement has not been signed. In any case, it will be decided in the coming weeks, in the month of January.
Preliminary qualifiers for the Davis Cup 2022
- France-Ecuador
- Spain-Romania
- Finland-Belgium
- United States-Colombia
- Netherlands-Canada
- Brazil-Germany
- Slovakia-Italy
- Australia-Hungary
- Norway-Kazakhstan
- Sweden-Japan
- Argentina-Czech Republic
- Korea-Austria.
Along with the qualifying rounds prior to the finals, those of world groups I and II were also raffled, also on March 4 and 5, 2022.
World Group I
Chile-Slovenia
India-Dinamarca
Uzbekistan-Turkey
Portugal-Poland
Túnez-Bosia Herzegovina
Israel-South Africa
New Zealand-Uruguay
Ukraine-Barbados
Pakistan-Lithuania
Peru-Bolivia
Switzerland-Lebanon
Belarus-Mexico
World Group II
China-Ireland
Dominican R-Vietnam
Thailand-Letonia
Guatemala-China Taipei
Indonesia-Venezuela
Estonia-Pacific Oceania
Egypt-Cyprus
Greece-Jamaica
Morocco-Monaco
Bulgaria-Paraguay
Zimbabwe-El Salvador
Benin-Hong Kong.
