LONDON — Argentina and Britain, recent winners of the Davis Cup, were given wild cards on Wednesday to compete in next year’s finals of the revamped competition.
Argentina, 2016 victors, and Britain, who won the previous year, have been selected to join the four semifinalists from this year’s edition — France, Croatia, Spain and United States — in the 18-team Davis Cup event in November 2019.
Those nations will be joined in the new weeklong tournament by 12 others, who will secure their places through qualifiers in February.
Argentina and Britain were due to compete in the qualifiers but will now be spared that hurdle after the Davis Cup steering committee gave them a pass into the finals, which will be held in either Lille, France, or Madrid.