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JonH comes home


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Im quite ok with this - sort of a hybrid between the old days and the recent structure. Two rounds of matches with a chance for a home match is good, the two days of three sets as opposed to three days of five fits much better with modern needs of players and fans, I think.

And I dont mind the finals of the DC and BJK Cups aligning on 8 teams and what will be, from 2026 , a most likely jointly held event in a World Cup of Tennis format. Although choosing the location of that is key - not the Middle East or China!

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I am not sure necessarily that it will be a single venue - Malaga was a compromise this year when Seville couldn't host - but agree that the locations are key.

There are difficulties with a joint event - not least the different sponsors - and in Malaga this year the events will be held on two different courts. And I am sure that Billie Jean King Cup Limited (which now runs the event) is not going to want to play second fiddle to Davis Cup. But let's see how it pans out.

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9vicman wrote:

I am not sure necessarily that it will be a single venue - Malaga was a compromise this year when Seville couldn't host - but agree that the locations are key.

There are difficulties with a joint event - not least the different sponsors - and in Malaga this year the events will be held on two different courts. And I am sure that Billie Jean King Cup Limited (which now runs the event) is not going to want to play second fiddle to Davis Cup. But let's see how it pans out.

 Good points - the ITF boss, Haggerty (sic) though talks about the aim being to align on a World Cup of tennis, which implies a single venue to me 



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I think for the ITF it's more important that the events are treated the same - format, prize money, profile - than their being merged.

The fact is that Davis Cup is held over three weeks, Billie Jean King Cup two, and they have different sponsors. In fact Davis Cup doesn't currently have a title sponsor. For a fully merged event, they would have to have the same commercial model, and I can't see that happening in the short term.

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www.daviscup.com/en/news/335222.aspx

Britain are drawn away in Japan in the qualifiers round for next year - to be played after the AO at end of Jan

Will be a tough tie, winnable but competitive

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If we get through that, we play Germany or Israel in September (not sure of venue?). I would put a link but I cant get DC site to open at the moment.



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Away in Japan sounds tricky. The last time GB faced Germany in home/away format was in a QF Munich in 73, as far as I can understand.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Davis_Cup

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