Next year's Billie Jean King Cup finals will be held a week later from Nov. 8-13 and organisers are working with the women's tour on the schedule to allow more top players to attend, the International Tennis Federation said on Saturday.
Formerly called the Fed Cup, the women's team event has been restructured into a 'World Cup of tennis' format concluding with 12 nations competing over one week for the title, with the new-look finals held for the first time this week in Prague.
With the season-ending WTA Finals -- contested by the top eight singles players and doubles teams in the world -- starting on Wednesday in Mexico most qualified players decided to skip the women's team event in Prague. "This year unfortunately we were right up against Guadalajara, which was a last-minute thing as well," King told reporters, adding that players were "grateful" to even have the team competition in 2021.Haggerty, who along with King, was present for the draw ceremony for the 2022 qualifiers, confirmed that the ITF and the WTA were in regular dialogue about next year's schedule.
They will be joined by the nine winning teams from the 2022 qualifiers, which will be played in best-of-five home-and-away ties on April 15-16.
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