Gerard Piqué closed yesterday the first edition of the Davis Cup Finals, organized by the Kosmos Group , of which he is president. The central Barcelona FC has been involved in the controversy since the initial rumors about the new format, which has put an end to the qualifiers throughout the year and has focused on a week, a city and 18 teams fighting for Salad bowl Fans, players and managers in the world of tennis have been reluctant since the beginning, first for the change and second for the person who has devised it, a football player. Despite having Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic in Madrid, the absence of Roger Federer has been a major blow to Davis. In fact, while the Magic Box welcomed 20,000 people throughout Saturday, it was filled on Sunday and added, according to Kosmos data, more than 130,000 spectators throughout the week, the Swiss tennis player sold 42,000 tickets for his exhibition match against the German Alexander Zverev in Mexico.
The schedules have been the other great shadow of this new Davis. Canada's team complained on the first day when it had to give its press conference at half past midnight, the doubles match between the United States and Italy ended at four in the morning , Nadal and Granollers beat the couple Argentina at one ... The afternoon shift, which except Saturday and Sunday has started at six, always lost the interest of the fan when it was after eleven o'clock at night: «People work the next day», they arrived to complain Nadal himself.
"You can't plan everything perfectly," Piqué said Sunday. «We will work on the issue of schedules to improve it. We have to be more creative, ”he acknowledged, while opening his hand to an agreement with the ATP to create a“ two-week super tournament ”:“ We are open to try to find the best moment, the best part of the calendar . Because it makes no sense to have two major separate competitions », in reference to the ATP World Cup that will be held in early January in Australia and which, unlike Davis, will distribute points for ranking.
The president Piqué of the Kosmos Group, like the soccer player Piqué, did not want to ignore any of the controversial issues or defects that this edition could have had. He recalled that the players have been very happy with the facilities and acknowledged that next year they hope to improve in terms of audience attendance . And it is that except in the games of Spain, especially those of the weekend, the appearance of the stands of the Magic Box has left much to be desired. Both on the central track Manolo Santana, which in the morning shifts has had many empty seats, as on tracks 2 and 3, which despite being smaller have failed to be close to full in any of the qualifiers. Only countries like Colombia, Chile, Argentina, the United States, Great Britain and Canada have had a recognizable fan in number of followers to improve the image of the stands. On television, the tournament has been broadcast on the Movistar payment channel, so the results will be much worse than those achieved, for example, in the 2011 Davis final between Spain and Argentina, which reached 32% of share in the decisive Nadal-Del Potro. On this occasion, Spain-Argentina in the quarterfinals brought together 300,000 spectators and obtained a 2.4% share. «It is the first year and not everyone knew what to do and how to go. Some tracks were not full, but people have come from all the countries that have competed . Now people know what the Davis Cup is and the environment we can create, and I am sure that next year we will improve a lot (in terms of public), ”closed the Barça center, which assured that“ there are offers from Asia and America by 2021 ». In 2020 Madrid will repeat.
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