The 2024 Davis Cup Finals are completed between 19-24 November, 2024 in Malaga in tandem with the Billie Jean King Cup Finals meaning those who are in Spain get to watch both. We delve further into the format and how the latter stages are devised.
The Final Group Stage took place across four cities on 10-15 September in Bologna, Manchester, Valencia and Zhuhai. Defending champions Italy, runners-up Australia and wildcards Great Britain and Spain were joined by the 12 nations that won in February's qualifiers.
As a result of these ties, Quarter-Finals have been devised which all have their own specific dates. Italy and Argentina play the latest alongside United States and Australia on 21 November. It goes section by section so that top half featuring those four teams will face off in the semi-finals out of whoever wins the Quarter-Finals.
The bottom section includes Germany v Canada and Netherlands v Spain. The semi-finals then take place over 22/23 November with the final on the 24 November. Those absent include Novak Djokovic's Serbia and Great Britain, the latter lost in September as they find it hard to adapt without Andy Murray.
The ties are contested in a best-of-three rubbers format. All played on one day, it follows a similar to format to most of the other teams tournaments with two singles followed by a doubles. Italy is the defending champion with Jannik Sinner set to return once more. He is joined in a strong team by Lorenzo Musetti, Flavio Cobolli and doubles specialists Simone Vavassori and Simone Bolelli.
But the lead attraction perhaps is Spain with Rafael Nadal's farewell set for the teams tournament. he is joined by Carlos Alcaraz, Roberto Bautista Agut, Pablo Carreno Busta and Marcel Granollers. Also with David Ferrer as captain. They face Netherlands who hope to be party poopers. Long sold out, their match commands huge money on the secondary market due to it being Nadal's final match.
Other teams include Alexei Popyrin and Jordan Thompson led Australia. While former. champions Canada won't have Felix Auger-Aliassime and instead have Denis Shapovalov, Gabriel Diallo and Milos Raonic among others.
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