Not enough thought put into Davis Cup revamp: Woodbridge

Todd Woodbridge is not convinced with the radical Davis Cup revamp and the winner of 16 doubles Grand Slam titles feels the tennis bosses seemed to be in a hurry to overhaul, "risking" a century-old tradition.

In August, world tennis body approved an overhaul that will condense the 118-year-old competition into an 18-team, week-long event.

Under the new format of the Davis Cup, 18 teams will play in a Final in November 2019.

"I believe the Davis Cup format needs to change, I believe the current format that has been proposed... a lot of thought has not been put into it, there are no guarantees of players turning up, there's no logistics in place, there are a lot of issues that need to be resolved," Woodbridge said Friday.

The 47-year-old Australian, one half of the all-conquering 'Woodies', added, "I think it would have been far better if the ITF had taken their time, another 12 months and actually planned the new competition out. Hope things go okay. But they risk losing the whole tradition of 100 plus years of Davis Cup if this doesn't work."
"If we can get a nation to come along that has a combination, that gets you promotion. If we could get a double combination to highlight that would be sensational, and from a strong tennis nation."