The Professional Tennis Association has announced the return of the World Cup for Teams competition, to be launched from 2020 in Australia, with the possibility that the new competition will compete with the Davis Cup competition, after introducing reforms in the championships of the game. "This event gives the start of the tennis season a minimal impact on the calendar set at the beginning of the season," according to a statement issued by the President of the Professional Players League, Chris Kermode, on the eve of the Wimbledon English Championship, the third Grand Slam "Grand Slam". He added: "This event has great potential, and we look forward to working closely with the Australian Tennis Association to make this project a reality." This experience of the teams witnessed its last version in 2012, 35 years after its launch and its establishment in the German city of Dusseldorf, without success in the response of the players.
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With its new suit, which notes reprogramming at the beginning of January of each year, the competition witnesses the participation of 24 teams preparing the season from Australia, and its prizes amount to 15 million US dollars - 12.9 million euros - and also gives players points in the world rankings, without That the number of points be calculated, and the statement issued by the president of the association stated, "Additional details will be announced in a timely manner in partnership with the Australian Federation for the game." Some fear that the new contest, which was voted on in the General Assembly of the Professional Players Association, which was held Sunday in the British capital, London, will threaten the Davis Cup competition, which recently missed the participation of the big players. To this end, the curators of the International Tennis Federation have limited the final stage of the Davis Cup to one week in November 2019 in one city, with the participation of 18 teams, instead of dividing the matches into four weeks.
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