Aged 40 for a few weeks, Nicolas Mahut, who has had several Davis Cup campaigns with the old formula, did not spare the news in the last podcast of Court n°1 on RMC Sport. Satisfied to have been able to taste this fervor again during the play-off match against Ecuador this weekend in Pau, the Angevin also hopes that a French city will be chosen to host the final stages next September. Which is far from certain.
“The wait was endless because we had 2019 in Madrid which was a fiasco for me but it was the first edition. In 2020, we know the conditions, there was no Davis Cup and last year we found ourselves in Innsbruck (in Austria, editor’s note) behind closed doors, so we were far from the atmosphere of the Davis Cup and there we rediscovered the scent of a Davis Cup meeting with people who were happy to be there, who supported us, over two days. So it wasn’t three days but it’s a format that was a little closer to what we were able to know and what made us dream, players and spectators. Now, we are not going to debate on this new formula, I believe that Kosmos destroyed a historic competition and today they are rowing to make it look like something. Personally, I prefer the format that is offered this year to what was in previous years, hoping that France will be able to host this final phase in 2022.”
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2022 at 5:17 PM
