After four years organizing the Davis cupthe company of the former Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué It broke its link with the International Tennis Federation and from 2023 they will no longer be in charge of carrying out the tournament of nations.
The relationship between Piqué and the world of tennis never managed to come to fruition. Since his arrival in 2018 With the purchase of the rights to Davis, fans rejected the new format and the change it made to one of the oldest tournaments in the world.
The straw that broke the camel’s back was the economic claims of the International Tennis Federation, which asked €40 million a year to keep the rights, and the Kosmos Group did not accept.
“The agreement was too picky for us” declared members of Kosmos to Relevo, a Spanish media outlet. Finally, the contract that was agreed for 25 years only lasted four, and now the Davis Cup was in the hands of the ITF.
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