The director of the Davis Cup finals, Feliciano Lopez, He assured this Tuesday that in the next three weeks the city of the 2025 finals will be decided and highlighted that Valencia ““He’s one of the candidates.”although he admits that the commitment of Málaga and the Junta de Andalucía has been “very strong” in recent years.
In the forum ‘Organization, sponsorship and impact of major sporting events in Spain: the example of the Davis Cup’, sponsored by EFE and Lexus, Feliciano López stressed that when he arrived in Valencia to present the group stage of the Davis Cup this year there was a “a tremendous interest on the part of the City Council and the Generalitat“and emphasized that the Roig Arena “will be spectacular.”
Just arrived from New York after the US Open, Feliciano said that “it is obvious that one institution alone will not achiever” in an event of these characteristics, but emphasized that “the interest”, in this case, is “there” and that “hopefully it is debatable”, in part because of the “amazingness” of the new venue.
“In two or three weeks we will know“said Feliciano López, who was very pleased with Valencia’s response to this week’s Davis Cup group stage, because the city “is always ready.”
“Valencia is a land of tennis. There were 250 tournaments, then 500 and there were great tennis players. Last year was a success even though it didn’t qualify and when Spain didn’t play, Fonteta was almost full and now, with Alcaraz, there are more,” said the former tennis player.
López, at the forum held at Base One and sponsored by Lexus, which is also a sponsor of the 2024 Davis Cup, insisted that all tennis fans know “what the Davis Cup is” and stressed that it is a competition “that havecompletely different“.
“I hope Spain will qualifythat I think, and Valencia shows that it is a tennis city,” said López, reviewing the six salad bowls that Spain has had since the year 2000, when the first one was acquired in Barcelona.
Also, he insisted on the need to create a new “legated, as in Barcelona“, which is “big” and claims that in Spain “there are not only three sports.”
“I think we lack a little bit of continuity in the whole legacy of Barcelona. I don’t compare myself to the US or China, but I compare myself to Italy, France or Germany, which invest a lot of money in sports. Spain needs a little investment in sport, I say this with all sincerity. Little support to continue competing in France or Italy and, for this, a project like the one in Barcelona is needed, which is not in time, but will help in the next 10-15 years,” he commented.
So, he concluded by asserting that the level of investment in Barcelona 92 was “brutal”, in addition to Barcelona has become something “everyone is watching” and that is “increasing” due to the amount of infrastructure being built ‘ad hoc’.
Source: La Verdad

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