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**allvideO** · 10-16-2009, 06:04 AM

Is that the main reason? Is the public opinion (outside the tennis-heavy countries) that the format isn't broken at all?

Here a article that discuss it.
I think the ITF wants to consider things that will make it(Davis Cup) better for tennis worldwide," Levering said. "The way the ITF has structured it makes it very difficult for changes to be made quickly. So that is the dilemma? What the [16] World Group countries might want may not suit the other groups, where Davis Cup is their only source of revenue. When they have ties in their home country, that is the only time they are able to make any money. So it is not in their interest to have it every other year. But yet they also have an influence on the voting should the ITF choose to make a change.

"We(United States) are, by far, the biggest national association for tennis in the world, and so - although you never have enough money to do all that you want to do - we don't really have as many of the financial problems that some of these other national associations have." http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/t...g-1074043.html

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allvideO Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 665 Senior Member	Is that the main reason? Is the public opinion (outside the tennis-heavy countries) that the format isn't broken at all? Here a article that discuss it. I think the ITF wants to consider things that will make it(Davis Cup) better for tennis worldwide," Levering said. "The way the ITF has structured it makes it very difficult for changes to be made quickly. So that is the dilemma? What the [16] World Group countries might want may not suit the other groups, where Davis Cup is their only source of revenue. When they have ties in their home country, that is the only time they are able to make any money. So it is not in their interest to have it every other year. But yet they also have an influence on the voting should the ITF choose to make a change. "We(United States) are, by far, the biggest national association for tennis in the world, and so - although you never have enough money to do all that you want to do - we don't really have as many of the financial problems that some of these other national associations have." http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/t...g-1074043.html
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