Video: new format and finals for Fed Cup women’s tennis event
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that the women’s tennis Fed Cup tournament will be relaunched with a new format and new finals event.
A “World Cup of Tennis” format will see the number of nations increase from eight to 20 and they will compete each year to be world champions.
According to the official news release 16 nations will compete in the 2020 qualifiers on 7-8 February on a home-and-away basis over five matches to earn one of eight places in the finals.
The eight qualifying nations will join the 2019 finalists Australia and France, host nation Hungary and one wild card in the 2020 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Finals - a new event that will be held from 14-19 April 2020 in Budapest, Hungary.
The finals will be staged at the Laszlo Papp Budapest Sports Arena f...