The bad news continues for Gerard Piqué and Kosmos in the world of tennis. If a few weeks ago the breaking of the agreement with the ITF for the organization of the Davis Cup was made official, now comes a new setback.
And it is that he has lost one of the most prominent players he represented. Is about Dominic Thiem, who announced this Tuesday that from now on it will be his brother who will be in charge of the representation work.
Dominic Thiem
At least, and unlike other aspects of the ex-soccer player today, the break has been friendly. “There is not much more to say about it, we ended the partnership with Kosmos without a dispute or anything like that. Which was also very important to us. It must also be said that they did not have much luck with me. I signed and after five days I destroyed my wrist. It didn’t go well for me or for them,” declared the Austrian tennis player, who is looking to recover this season the level that led him to be among the elite of world tennis before injuries cut short his career.
This way, Kosmos is now left with Andrey Rublev and Daria Kastakina as its most prominent representatives.
Daria Kasatkina and Andrey Rublev
We remember that the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced that it was breaking the agreement with Gerard Piqué’s Kosmos company, five years after reaching a historic pact, endorsed in Orlando (USA) by the assembly of the main federative body of this sport. Revolution of the centennial Davis Cup in an idea for 25 years and an investment of 3,000 million dollars by the group of the former Barça footballer.
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The ITF did not attend to a renegotiation of the fixed 40 million per year, and decided to conclude its stage with Kosmos, which will take the matter to the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport). The scuffle passes to the judicial field, with the claim for million-dollar compensation in the middle.
Meanwhile, the 2023 Davis Cup will maintain the 2022 scheme, albeit with the ITF retaking command.with a nod to the ATP, which governs the men’s professional circuit, to give the Davis Cup one more turn from 2024.
