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On Tennis: The Davis Cup Could Use a Little Polishing

It is a big week for Davis Cup tennis, and not only because Britain is back in the final for the first time in 37 years and Belgium for the first time in 111 years.

And not only because Yannick Noah, one of the most iconic captains in the competition’s history, has just been renamed captain of the French team he twice led to victory in the 1990s.

It is also a big week because of what will or will not happen in Santiago, Chile, after the International Tennis Federation elects a new president Friday after 16 years under the conservative leadership of Francesco Ricci Bitti.