On August 16, 2018, the ITF voted in favor of changing the format of the Davis Cup. The Kosmos company, owned by Gerard Piqué, took over the competition rights after getting 71.43% of the votes in favor (325 yes, 130 no and four abstentions or null), slightly higher than the two-thirds required. for approval (66.66%).
In the last hours, ‘The Spanish Newspaper‘published that Miguel Díaz Román, president of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET), had overturned the vote of the delegate from Spain who had moved to Orlando to give it to Tomás Carbonell, who had traveled with Piqué on his plane.
“Like I told you, Gerard [Piqué] He told me that because I was not going, if Tomás could go [Carbonell] morning. Because I see no problem for you to be two people at the AGM [Asamblea General Anual], as almost all countries went to Orlando, well, both of you were there. I hope you don’t mind“President Román himself acknowledged in a message sent to Senz de Broto a few hours before the vote, to which the said medium had access.
The information indicates that the Spanish Federation decided to support Piqué’s project just four days before Florida’s vote on a very divided Board of Directors, so the president decided to make sure that the vote of the Spanish delegation would be in favor of changing the format.
Source: La Verdad
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