translated from Spanish: Davis Cup finals will be in November 2021

From the International Tennis Federation (ITF) they announced that the Davis Cup finals that were scheduled for the end of this year in Madrid will be rescheduled for next year: from 22 to 28 November 2021.The Federation Cup was also postponed on the grounds that its celebration was unsafe given the current situation by the coronavirus pandemic. 
The Davis Cup will be played in the Magic Box in Madrid, on hard courts, and the Fed Cup will be held from 13 to 18 April 2021 on clay on the indoor courts of the Laszlo Papp Arena in Budapest, Hungary. The 18 teams that have already qualified for this year’s finals will compete in the finals rescheduled in 2021, with the draw remaining in the finals as published.” The decision to postpone the event comes after a three-month review of the considerable logistical and regulatory challenges that have arisen as a result of the pandemic and all possible reception scenarios with the health and safety of all those involved of the utmost importance,” says the ITF statement. In the official brief, they added: “The Davis Cup finals are the pinnacle of the world’s largest men’s team tennis competition and were held to see the top 18 national teams in the world compete for the Davis Cup World Championship title for a week in Madrid from November 23 to 29, 2020. The event was to host more than 90 athletes with important support teams, as well as thousands of fans, officials, staff, partners and other stakeholders traveling from countries around the world, each at a different stage to deal with the pandemic.”
“The difficulties in hosting such a large mass meeting on an international scale in a covered compound are considerable due to the pandemic, both in the current and expected climates,” they said from the federation. Gerard Piqué, president of Kosmos Tennis, said: “It is a great disappointment to all of us that the Davis Cup Finals will not be held in 2020. We do not know how the situation will develop in each classified nation, or whether the restrictions in Spain will remain sufficiently relieved, so it is impossible to predict the situation in November and ensure the safety of those who travel to Madrid,” adding: “This postponement has no long-term relationship with our collective ambitions for the Davis Cup. ITF and Kosmos Tennis hope to deliver exceptional competition by 2021, when it is safe and feasible to do so.”

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