2021 Davis Cup Finals

The Finals, formerly known as World Group, will be the highest level of Davis Cup competition in 2021. It will be held on indoor hard courts at the Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain. The 2020 edition was originally scheduled to take place from 23 until 29 November 2020. However, on 26 June 2020, ITF announced that 2020 Finals will take place from 22 until 28 November 2021 due to coronavirus pandemic and will be named 2021 Davis Cup Finals.[1] On 18 January 2021, ITF announced that the Finals would be expanded over 11 days, from 25 November to 5 December 2021.[2] The ties will be contested in a best-of-three rubbers format and will be played on one day. There will be two singles followed by a doubles.[3]

2021 Davis Cup Finals
Date25 November–5 December 2021
Edition2nd
SurfaceHard indoor
LocationMadrid, Spain
VenueCaja Mágica
Main article: 2020–21 Davis Cup

Spain are the defending champions.

Participating teams

18 nations will take part in the Finals.[4]

The qualification is as follows:

  • 4 semifinalists of the previous edition
  • 2 wild card teams (announced by ITF on 23 November 2019 as France and Serbia)[5]
  • 12 winners of the Qualifying Round, in March 2020

Overview

H = Host Nation, TH = Title-Holder, 2019F = Finalist from the 2019 tournament, 2019SF = Semi-Finalists from the 2019 tournament, WC = Wild Card

Participating teams

Australia
Austria
Canada (2019F)
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic

Ecuador
France (WC)
Germany
Great Britain (2019SF)
Hungary
Italy

Kazakhstan
Russia (2019SF)
Serbia (WC)
Spain (H, TH)
Sweden
United States

Seeds

The seedings were based on the Davis Cup Ranking of 9 March.[4] Spain, as 2019 champions, are seeded No. 1 and will be drawn into Pool A. Canada, as 2019 runners-up, are seeded No. 2 and will be drawn into Pool B. The four other highest-ranked nations (France, Croatia, USA and Serbia) are seeded 3–6. The nations in pot 2 will be drawn randomly into position 2 and the nations in pot 3 will be drawn randomly into position 3.[6]

  1.  Spain
  2.  Canada
  3.  France
  4.  Croatia
  5.  United States
  6.  Serbia
  7.  Germany
  8.  Italy
  9.  Great Britain
  10.  Australia
  11.  Kazakhstan
  12.  Russia
  13.  Sweden
  14.  Austria
  15.  Czech Republic
  16.  Colombia
  17.  Hungary
  18.  Ecuador

Format

The 18 teams are divided in six round robin groups of three teams each. The six group winners plus the two second-placed teams with the best records based on percentage of matches won (followed by percentage of sets won and then percentage of games won), will qualify for the quarterfinals.[7]

DateRoundNumber of teams
25 November – ?? DecemberRound robin18 (6 groups of 3 teams)
??–?? DecemberQuarterfinals8 (6 group winners + 2 best second place)
4 DecemberSemifinals4 (automatically qualified for 2022 Davis Cup Finals)
5 DecemberFinal2

Group stage
Qualified for the Knockout stage

Overview

T = Ties, M = Matches, S = Sets

Group First seed Second seed Third seed
NationTMS NationTMS NationTMS
A  Spain–––  Russia–––  Ecuador–––
B  Canada–––  Kazakhstan–––  Sweden–––
C  France–––  Great Britain–––  Czech Republic–––
D  Croatia–––  Australia–––  Hungary–––
E  United States–––  Italy–––  Colombia–––
F  Serbia–––  Germany–––  Austria–––

Group A
Pos. Country Ties Matches Sets Sets % Games Games %
1  Spain – – – % – %
2  Russia – – – % – %
3  Ecuador – – – % – %

Group B
Pos. Country Ties Matches Sets Sets % Games Games %
1  Canada – – – % – %
2  Kazakhstan – – – % – %
3  Sweden – – – % – %

Group C
Pos. Country Ties Matches Sets Sets % Games Games %
1  France – – – % – %
2  Great Britain – – – % – %
3  Czech Republic – – – % – %

Group D
Pos. Country Ties Matches Sets Sets % Games Games %
1  Croatia – – – % – %
2  Australia – – – % – %
3  Hungary – – – % – %

Group E
Pos. Country Ties Matches Sets Sets % Games Games %
1  United States – – – % – %
2  Italy – – – % – %
3  Colombia – – – % – %

Group F
Pos. Country Ties Matches Sets Sets % Games Games %
1  Serbia – – – % – %
2  Germany – – – % – %
3  Austria – – – % – %

Knockout stage

Bracket
  Quarterfinals
 Semifinals
 Final
                           
  25 or 26 November
   Winner Group A  
   Best or 2nd best runner-up     27 November
       
  25 or 26 November      
   Winner Group C
   Winner Group F     28 November
     
  25 or 26 November      
   Winner Group E  
   Winner Group D     27 November
     
  25 or 26 November      
   Best or 2nd best runner-up
   Winner Group B  

References
  1. "2020 Davis Cup Finals to be postponed until 2021". Daviscup.com. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  2. "Davis Cup Finals: 2021 event expanded to 11 days to 'ease burden on players'". BBC Sport. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  3. "Davis Cup Format". Daviscup.com. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  4. "Line-up confirmed for 2020 Davis Cup Finals". Daviscup.com. 8 March 2020.
  5. "Wild cards announced for 2020 Finals". Daviscup.com. 23 November 2019.
  6. "Seeds announced for Davis Cup Finals 2020". Daviscup.com. 9 March 2020.
  7. "2020 ITF Davis Cup Regulations" (PDF). International Tennis Federation. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
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