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Davis Cup Finals: 2021 event expanded to 11 days to ‘ease burden on players’

Davis Cup Finals: 2021 event expanded to 11 days to ‘ease burden on players’

Rafael Nadal (right) helped Spain beat Canada to win the title in 2019 The Davis Cup Finals will be expanded to an 11-day event, and could in future be staged in three different cities. Rafael Nadal’s Spain won the inaugural 18-team Finals in Madrid in 2019. But some matches were poorly attended, and the congested schedule led to the group match between the United States and Italy finishing at 4.04 am. The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has already accepted two proposals from its partner Kosmos after a review of the 2019 event. The first edition was a week-long event but this...

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