The Worldwide Tennis League's radical update of the Davis Glass has thrown uncertainty over Australia's planned World Gathering playoff in Austria after the ITF voted to lessen the 118-year-old rivalry to a season-finishing World Container style organize highlighting 18 groups from 2019.
The principal version will be held in Madrid or Lille in November one year from now, with the debut have city to be declared in the coming weeks. The changes have maddened Tennis Australia and Australian Davis Cupcaptain Lleyton Hewitt, who presently doesn't know whether one month from now's tie against Austria in Graz will even happen.
Triumph over the Dominic Thiem-drove Austrians would have moved Australia again into the 16-group World Gathering in 2019 yet the playoff presently seems pointless, with Australia expecting to partake in February qualifiers one year from now just to influence the new 18-to group rivalry.
TA authorities were set to hold emergency chats on Friday, yet it is comprehended the representing body were befuddled by the entire circumstance and really questionable about their subsequent stage.
Regardless of the ridiculous situation, Australia could be compelled to play the evidently excess dirt court attach from 14 to 16 September – the end of the week after the US Open – or hazard being fined by the ITF or conceivably suspended and docked world group rankings focuses.
"I am clearly absolutely against these progressions to Davis Container and quite disappointed by what has happened and the absence of data accessible," said Hewitt, a two-time victor of the Davis Glass and Australia's best singles player in the exceptionally old occasion.
"The opposition they recommend isn't the Davis Container. You can't call this the Davis Glass. You can approach anybody for as far back as 50 years who has played the Davis Container and they will disclose to you this proposition isn't what it is about, nor what it ought to be about."
Hewitt said numerous present and previous players saw the new arrangement as "a cash get".
"The home and away installation and the five-set fights are additionally part of what influences Davis To container one of a kind in tennis and separates it from the standard visit," he said. "Playing at home, or even away before an enthusiastic fanatic group, is a piece of the reason we need to play."
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