Friday, October 11, 2024, 2:07 p.m.
Whoever bought tickets to see the Davis Cup final a few weeks ago is in luck. You will see Rafa Nadal‘s last matches on a tennis court for a price according to the market. And whoever doesn’t have them yet will have to dig deep into their pockets because there are no passes left at the box office and resale is absolutely skyrocketing. The few weekly tickets available – the Davis finals are played in a 8-a-side format – on the black market are priced at 5,000 euros and for the grand final on November 24, the most expensive tickets are at 13,000 and 20,000. euros.
Everyone wants to see Rafa Nadal and the Spanish team lift the seventh Saladera – it would be the Manacor tennis player’s sixth. They play at home, at the Martín Carpena in Málaga, and expectations are high since David Ferrer’s team qualified for the 8-a-side final that will be played from November 19 to 24.
The official ticket offices show the ‘all sold’ sign, except for the quarter-final ties between Germany and Canada; United States and Australia; and Italy and Argentina. For these meetings there are still a few for sale starting at 40-50 euros. There are no tickets left for the semi-finals, final and quarter-finals between Spain and the Netherlands, as with the different season tickets available.
The only option to see Nadal and the Spanish team in the Davis Cup finals is to go to resale, and even then it carries a very important risk. The sports tournament organizations repeat actively and passively that you can only attend the event through an official pass and going to the black market for resale means buying many tickets to be scammed.
If the interested party still wants to buy the ticket at the resale, they will have to prepare their wallet. The prices are as follows. On the best-known websites in the world, the weekly subscription – the one that allows you to attend all the games – is 5,000 euros. The cheapest package for the quarterfinals against the Netherlands is around 2,000 euros, the same as for the grand final. The minimum resale cost to see Spain in this Davis will be about 2,000 euros. But if we look at the best areas of the pavilion, the price skyrockets. Up to 20,000 euros are paid at resale for the most expensive pass in Sunday’s final.
Nadal’s retirement will be at home and in a competition that he has already won five times. «I am very excited that my last tournament is the Davis Cup final, representing my country. I think it is closing the circle, since one of my first great joys was the final in Seville in 2004. I am lucky for everything I have been able to experience,” he said on Thursday in his farewell video.
