ITF and Kosmos present proposals for the 2022 Davis Cup Finals

The International Tennis Federation and the Kosmos Tennis group that is behind the competition said four cities will host the group stages beginning in 2022, with another venue — likely Abu Dhabi — hosting the knockout rounds.

Each city will host matches from one of the four-team groups, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage. The changes are being made as organizers continue to address the scheduling challenges that marred the first edition two years ago.

"We are constantly thinking of how to improve, adjust for the future and looking to the edition of 2022,” Kosmos CEO Enric Rojas said. "We are going to try again to do another adjustment, a bit of an evolution, for having four different cities hosting the group stage, and then going to a neutral city for playing the final part of the competition."

He further said:

"We think that with that small adjustment and evolution we are going to have even more fan engagement and more people in the arenas because of having four cities with extra home interest. It’s going to give us, in our view, the final piece of becoming a real successful event and the real World Cup of Tennis.”

ITF president David Haggerty said, “we have a preferred city that has a vision that we have, that we share together, for Davis Cup, continuing to build on that competition. That’s one of the main ingredients. We’ll be leaving behind a legacy in all four cities that have the group stage as well as the preferred city that will have the Finals. There are many outstanding reasons that we believe this preferred host is where we will go. In due course, we’ll make an announcement.”