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The ATP Cup is an international outdoor hard court men's tennis tournament between competing nations, which will
premiere in January 2020. The tournament will be played across three Australian cities over ten days in the lead
up to the Australian Open and will feature teams from 24 countries.
The event sees the return of an ATP team competition into the calendar for the first time since the ATP World Team
Cup, which was held in Düsseldorf from 1978 to 2012. The inaugural tournament is scheduled to take place between 3
and 12 January 2020, being played in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Sydney will host the finals of the competition for
the first three events between 2020 and 2022.[1][2]
DOn 2 July 2018, ATP director, Chris Kermode announced that he had plans to organize a men's team tennis tournament
which came after the Davis Cup changed their format six months prior to the
announcement.[3] The tournament which at the time of the announcement had the name World Team Cup which was similar
to the previous World Team Cup that took place in Düsseldorf from 1978 to 2012.[4] Four months later, on November
15, the ATP with Tennis Australia announced that the tournament was renamed to the ATP Cup with twenty four teams
playing at three cities in preparation for the Australian Open.[5] Those cities would later be revealed to be
Sydney, Brisbane[6] and Perth with the Hopman Cup being axed due to the new tournament.[7]
