They approve Davis proposed by the company of Gerard Hammered

This Thursday, Gerard Hammered travelled to Orlando to know at first hand if the new project of Kosmos, the company that chairs, would be approved. This consisted in elaborating a new format in the Glass Davis of tennis, but for this needed that the pertinent votes went sufficient as to give validity to the project.

It organised the assembly of the International Federation of Tennis (ITF) and finally the result was positive for the proposal that brought the Barcelona head office. Kosmos A group investor that during 25 years will invest billions of dollars to transform the format of the Glass Davis, that kept during the last 118 years.

In these circumstances, the world-wide group will be formed from the next years by 18 nations in an only headquarters, playing during a week in November. It would compete in a species of World-wide with groups of classification for the quarter-finals, round to which would arrive eight qualifiers. The crosses would be two points of individual and one of double to the best of three sets.

The new Glass Davis has received 71% of favourable votes. A necessary quantity for being above the two total thirds that were necessary for his approval. It is necessary to take into account that no all the federations had the same votes, since the majority podian have 9 whereas others had 12.

In this sense, the four big federations -Australia, France, Great Britain and United States, the only with right to 12 votes together with Germany- voted of distinct form with regard to the proposal of the central of the FC Barcelona. Whereas the Americans and you French supported the proposal of Kosmos, the Australian and the British opusieron.

The new Davis of Hammered

The most important change in the format of the competition would be that it would celebrate whole in a week of November, in place of in several months of difference as up to now. The attractive of the proposal resides in that it would situate in a period of the year in which there is not Grand Slams in the circuit tenístico, by what would give emotion to the final part of the year.