Novak Djokovic says the Davis Cup knockout section “has to journey” around the globe as he prepares for Serbia’s quarter-final in opposition to Britain in Spain.
Since a revamp of the boys’s staff occasion in 2019, the ultimate phases of the match have at all times been performed in Spanish cities.
On Thursday Serbia play Britain in Malaga, the place the semi-finals and remaining can be held on the weekend.
“It is a competitors that’s performed globally,” Djokovic stated.
“It should not keep in a single place greater than a yr.”
Eight nations have been competing within the week-long occasion, however Spain did not qualify.
The Davis Cup, which began in 1900, was once performed in a home-and-away format, usually making a partisan environment however recurrently lacking prime gamers.
It led to a controversial revamp the match and the ultimate phases have been became a season-ending occasion, as a part of a 25-year £2.15bn plan funded by the Kosmos funding group fronted by former Spain footballer Gerard Pique.
Billed because the World Cup of Tennis, the inaugural occasion that includes 18 groups was held in Madrid in 2019 and the ultimate phases of the 2020-21 occasion have been additionally held within the Spanish capital.
The ‘Ultimate Eight’ of the previous two editions have been performed on the Palacio de Deportes Martin Carpena in Malaga.
In January this yr the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) ended the cope with Kosmos after lower than 5 years.
World primary Djokovic, who has received a report 24 Grand Slam males’s singles titles, urged extra communication between the ITF and the highest gamers concerning the Davis Cup.
“Everybody ought to have their say as a result of thus far no-one has been actually speaking with us from the ITF,” stated Djokovic, whose nation haven’t performed a Davis Cup tie on house soil since 2018.
“I do not assume all of us agree. We could have most likely distinction of opinions, however the home-and-away ties is one thing the Davis Cup traditionally has been very well-known for.
“Giving one nation to host the [Final] Eight for 4 years is an excessive amount of. It has to journey.”
Australian world quantity 12 Alex de Minaur stated he would return to the house and away format in a “heartbeat”.
There can be no adjustments till at the least 2025 with the present format set in place for subsequent yr.
The group stage of this yr’s match, going down within the week after the US Open, was performed throughout venues in Manchester, Bologna, Cut up and Valencia.
Feliciano Lopez, who’s the match director in Malaga, instructed BBC Radio 5 Dwell he had a “productive” dialog concerning the subject with Djokovic when Serbia performed in Valencia.
Australian doubles legend Mark Woodforde, who’s an athlete consultant on the ITF board, says a “interval of stabilisation” has been wanted following Kosmos’ ill-fated intervention and disruption attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“The ITF doesn’t really feel there must be change as a result of it’s struggling, our suggestions is it’s not in any bother, however we’re at all times reviewing it,” Woodforde instructed BBC Radio 5 Dwell.
“We are the World Cup of Tennis – it’s not a European-based competitors. We might like to see the match flourish, doubtlessly performed in North America, South America and Oceania areas.”