On Thursday in London, the ATP tour announced a new team event called the ATP Cup, which will begin in 2020. Glyn Kirk/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
LONDON — The Davis Cup and the Laver Cup are getting a new team-competition companion.
The men’s tennis tour said Thursday the debut of the ATP Cup will take place in January 2020, a week before the start of the Australian Open.
The announcement of the 24-team event comes three months after the International Tennis Federation — backed by a group of investors spearheaded by the Barcelona soccer player Gerard Pique — said it would hold a one-week Davis Cup competition for 18 nations in Madrid in November 2019.