Published: November 28, 2018
Tournament director admits new format is a gamble but vying for prestige with 2020 World Cup is ‘not good for any of us’
Albert Costa, who won the Davis Cup for Spain three times, as player and captain, hopes tradition will be enough to stave off opposition to the radical changes engulfing the 118-year-old competition but predicts a merger with the ATP’s rival World Cup in the next two years could ultimately settle the conflict.
“We know that one form of the Davis Cup is finished, and one is going to come,” Costa told the Guardian on Wednesday, looking back on the last of the old finals – in Lille at the weekend, when Croatia beat France 3-1 – and forward to the experiment he will oversee as tournament director in Madrid next November.
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