- It’s the reply to the Kosmos tournament and a World Cup substitute
- The 24 international locations with the finest no 1 take part in the ATP rating
- Three venues, 9 days and with captains apart from Davis (Roig in Spain)
If the 2019 tennis closed with the new Davis Cup, the 2020 season kicks off with the ATP Cup. One other tournament for alternatives born from the outdated Workforce World Cup and goals, towards the curiosity of the gamers to go away a single championship , advance to the Kosmos group competitors to be the primary tennis World Cup. In Australia its first version and on exhausting monitor, three cities host from January Three to 12 to 24 international locations.
A couple of months after the ITF introduced that its Davis Cup was being managed by the holding firm led by Gerard Piqué, the ATP (employers' employer) responded by recovering its former World Cup extinct in 2014 by the Hopman Cup, which introduced collectively gamers Female and male. On this approach, the ATP Cup was born, once more solely with males, and supported primarily by the Australian Federation that would additionally host the tournament in its first version with its Perth, Brisbane and Sydney as cities chosen for the group part and the final one additionally for the closing part.
In the first place, the large distinction with respect to the ATP tournament between 1978 and 2012 is that of the eight taking part international locations it has been handed to 24 that are categorized in accordance with the rating of their no 1. With the exception of Switzerland, eradicated by the casualties of Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka, they agglutinate in six teams (of 4 groups every) and of those that rank all the first plus the two finest seconds.
As soon as the eight quarterfinals have been decided, the first ATP Cup champion will seem at the Ken Rosewall Enviornment in Sydney from January 9 to 12. All in exhausting monitor, as an alternative of the crushed earth that hosted the World Cup, and as in Davis there three clashes (two singles and one doubles) at better of three units with tie break in the case of 6-6, much less in doubles (which is able to all the time be performed even when a rustic has received the earlier two singles) the place there’s a match tie break (The first one to succeed in ten factors with a bonus of two wins).
Already stipulated this, the 24 international locations with the finest no 1 in accordance with the ATP classification have been divided into the six teams themselves as follows:
Group A (Brisbane). Serbia, France, South Africa and Chile.
Group B (Perth). Spain, Japan, Georgia and Uruguay.
Group C (Sydney). Belgium, United Kingdom, Bulgaria and Moldova.
Group D (Perth). Russia, Italy, United States and Norway.
Group E (Sydney). Austria, Croatia, Argentina and Poland.
Group F (Brisbane). Germany, Greece, Canada and Australia.
As in Davis, the standards to interrupt in case of two international locations with equal qualifiers received will probably be defeated units, then matches and at last video games. Nevertheless, concerning this tournament one other large distinction is in the captains. Right here every no 1 has chosen who instructs them and it may be seen from Marat Safin, Boris Becker, Lleyton Hewitt or Grigor Dimitrov himself, who has pointed to himself, till Francis Roig, ordinary preparer of Nadal and designated by him as chief as an alternative of Sergi Bruguera who raised the sixth 'salad bowl'.
Nevertheless, Roig, making the most of the success in Madrid, has chosen nearly the identical crew as Bruguera and with Nadal at the head, world no 1 is adopted Roberto Bautista, Pablo Carreño, Feliciano López and Albert Ramos, the latter being the nice novelty concerning Marcel Granollers who needed to bounce to the Spanish monitor.
Lastly, additionally not like the Kosmos tournament, being owned by the ATP and never the ITF this championship sure distributes factors for the rankings (as much as 750 if a participant finally ends up undefeated), though these differ in accordance with the rating of every participant. Additionally in accordance with the place of every participant, totally different financial prizes will probably be given whole loot of 15 million {dollars} (13.four euros).
The schedules with Spain, the large mess to observe the video games
When performed in three cities with three totally different time zones, this will probably be the primary mess to be clear at what time every recreation is. Nevertheless, the group has stipulated 10:00 and 17:30 of every web site for the begin of all conferences till the semifinals. There, the schedules will change at 11:00 and 18:30 in Sydney and could have, once more, 18:30 as the time marked for the begin of the grand finale.
First is Perth, which is exactly the headquarters for the group of Spain (B) in addition to for D. This metropolis has a time zone of GMT + 8, so the conferences of the Tomorrow's shift will start at 3:00 Spanish daybreak and afternoon at 10:30. Towards Georgia and Uruguay (Saturday four and Monday 6), Roig will play in the second flip, whereas the final match, towards Japan (Wednesday 8), will probably be in the first and due to this fact harder to see reside (all by RTVE).
The second seat is Brisbane, the place teams A and F. will play. With a GMT + 10 time zone, tomorrow's flip will coincide with the 1:00 Spanish and the afternoon with 8:30.
Lastly, it’s Sydney the place are the C and E. Their time zone is GMT + 11 and due to this fact the first group and eighth part clashes will probably be at 00:00 from Spain and the seconds at 7:30. By additionally internet hosting the semifinals, these will probably be at the 1:00 and to the 8:30, whereas the closing will begin at 8:30 from Sunday, January 12.
That is how this ATP Cup, the successor of the World Cup, kicks off to 2020 and can rival, for now, the Davis Cup for being the benchmark of the tournaments for alternatives. 24 groups, three cities and 9 days of tennis with out main absences (besides the Swiss), to designate a primary champion that Spain chooses as a favourite for its newest success in 2019.