Published: August 16, 2018
- Australia could be forced to play meaningless playoff
- New format ‘a money grab’, says team captain
The International Tennis Federation’s radical overhaul of the Davis Cup has cast doubt over Australia’s scheduled World Group playoff in Austria after the ITF voted to reduce the 118-year-old competition to a season-ending World Cup-style format featuring 18 teams from 2019.
The first edition will be held in Madrid or Lille in November next year, with the inaugural host city to be announced in the coming weeks. The reforms have angered Tennis Australia and Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt, who now doesn’t even know if next month’s tie against Austria in Graz will even take place.
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