Piqué, during a Davis Cup event in Madrid. /
Tennis
The International Tennis Federation planned to take to court what until now was the organizer of the largest competition of nations in the world
The war between Kosmos and the ITF has only just begun. Two weeks after the company led by Gerard Piqué and the International Tennis Federation separated their paths by breaking the link that united them for the organization of the Davis Cup, Kosmos has sued the ITF considering a breach of contract. A strategic move by the former Barcelona player to get ahead of the highest tennis body, which had planned to take his company to court.
In this way, Kosmos will take the ITF to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS) and will claim a million-dollar compensation for damages and prejudices, a figure that has not yet come to light. The amount that the institution chaired by David Haggerty plans to request for breach of contract is known. Neither more nor less than 25 million dollars.
ITF and Kosmos joined in 2019 for a 25-year extension. Barely four years later, everything has fallen apart. Only three editions of the Davis Cup have been held under its current format, a competition system that raised a lot of criticism in the world of tennis because it ended with the qualifiers all over the world. The Davis began to be held in a single venue -the first two in Madrid and the last one had up to five stages, with the final phase in Malaga-. The impetus given by the first edition of 2019 with the title of Spain in the Caja Mágica collapsed with the arrival of the pandemic, which forced the merger of those of 2020 and 2021.
Málaga repeats as the venue for the final phase
The unknown now flies over the future of Davis, a hundred-year-old competition in which Spain has won its iconic salad bowl up to six times. The only certainty is that Malaga will repeat as the final venue for the next edition, but as of 2024 it is unknown if the format will remain the same.
