The premiere of the new Davis Cup final tournament next November will definitely be a success. At least the managing director of the investor believes Kosmos.
Well, that’s going to go down particularly well with the top players. Javier Alonso, managing director of the investment firm Kosmos, believes that the new Davis Cup format adopted by the ITF in August will definitely be a success. It doesn’t matter who will be competing at the end of November.
“Gerard Piqué did not come to the rescue of the Davis Cup because there was no way to save it,” Alonso said last week on the sidelines of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Shanghai. “The Davis Cup is a historic competition that will continue to exist, with or without the greatest stars in tennis.”
The way the requests to speak can be classified at present: then rather “without”. Alexander Zverev has already twice expressed his unwillingness to play competition tennis after the ATP Finals, and Roger Federer has already verbally passed on the new format to the next generation.
Novak Djokovic, on the other hand, would prefer the new World Team Cup, after all it is an ATP event. And whether Rafael Nadal jumps alone into the breach as a draught horse seems very questionable whether the injury history of the current world number one.