Tennis: ATP to revive the World Team Cup in 2020, to counter the new version of the 2019 Davis Cup

The ATP World Team Cup will be return in 2020, in partnership with Tennis Australia, the Australian Tennis Federation, indicated the ATP on 01/07/2018. "The ATP World Team Cup return to the calendar for the first time since taking place in Dusseldorf (GER) from 1978 to 2012. The tournament will feature 24 teams and offer $15m in player prize money in 2020, as well as ATP Rankings points," specified the tennis authority.

"News that the ATP Board has decided to proceed with the World Team Cup does not change the commitment of the ITF to proceed with a new Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Finals event in 2019. We do feel that this was an opportunity missed by the ATP to work together with the ITF in a beneficial and positive way for the whole of tennis.We look forward with confidence to the AGM in August 2018, where ITF member nations have the opportunity to vote for the Davis Cup reform’s final approval," responded the International Tennis Federation in a statement on 01/07/2018.

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