In a move that could shake up one of the sport’s biggest events, the International Tennis Federation’s board of directors approved a plan to stage the final phases of the Davis Cup men’s team competition and the Fed Cup women’s team competition together the next three years.
The board also approved the first site for the new combined, annual event: Geneva, which was selected from a list of six finalists that included Turin, Italy; Wuhan, China; Miami; Istanbul; and Copenhagen.
The combined finals would be staged indoors at an arena in the Palexpo exhibition center, which has a capacity of about 18,000, in 2018, 2019 and 2020.