Match Point: Chapter 1025 Apparatus

Chapter 1026 Displacement

"...Good morning, dear passengers and friends, thank you for choosing Air New Zealand as your partner for this journey, our final destination of this flight is ahead, Auckland, I am your captain..."

In the cabin, the in-flight radio was rustling, the faint blue halo receded slowly like the tide, and the sleeping flight slowly returned to life.

Stretching to save yourself from a sore waist, moving back and forth in the aisle, standing in line at the bathroom door, waiting in line at the bathroom door, waking up looking for breakfast, stiff and unable to move in weird postures, closing your eyes tightly as if entering another world A world-traveling…

There was a rustling sound, surging in the air, and then, Gawain also woke up, stretched a big lazy waist, his knees and waist were still a little sore—

Although the seats in the business class can lie flat, the space is still too narrow for Gao Wen’s height. He has to curl up like a baby every time, and he will inevitably suffer from back pain when he wakes up.

With a lazy waist, you can feel the crackling of bones, and every cell in your body groans happily.

etc!

Oakland?

What about Indian Wells?

All the hustle and bustle are all focused on Indian Wells, looking forward to Gao Wen's next performance in the Masters, but Gao Wen is heading to Auckland?

Could it be that the schedule went wrong?

of course not.

Everything is going according to plan, there is still a full week before the Indian Wells qualifying match, and a full two weeks before the main match, and in this short window period, there is another event debuting:

Davis Cup!

Today's professional tennis events can be divided into three parts: ATP/WTA, ITF, and the Four Grand Slams. Among the three, they cooperate with each other and coordinate with each other, but at the same time there is also a certain amount of competition.

When analyzed in depth, it is intricate and complicated, and can be easily understood:

ATP/WTA is responsible for the daily tour; the management rights of the four Grand Slams belong to the host countries respectively. The tennis associations of these countries jointly organize the four major grand slams every year, but they still remain relatively independent—

This is precisely because of this, the wild cards of the four Grand Slams often have their own special attributes.

So, what about the ITF?

ITF, which is the International Tennis Federation, is responsible for the Challenge, Hope and Youth events. That is to say, the four major Grand Slam youth competitions are assisted by the ITF. It's so big that almost no one cares about it.

The youth world ranking is calculated by the ITF.

If that’s all it is, then the ITF has almost no sense of presence in the professional tennis world. In fact, the ITF’s right to speak is indeed constrained by many parties, and it is difficult to move forward. It is almost like a sandwich biscuit-like doormat; however, there is only one exception:

Olympic Games!

The Olympic Games is an event in which countries take part. Therefore, they will not and cannot contact the ATP and WTA, which are based on individuals. The ITF, which is also based on countries, becomes the only possible partner.

This also means that the ITF has the right to judge the qualifications for the Olympic Games, and players must participate in ITF events to qualify—

Therefore, the men's team competition Davis Cup and the women's team competition Confederation Cup held by the ITF have become the only way.

According to ITF regulations, if a tennis player wants to enter the Olympic Games, he must accumulate the number of appearances in the Davis Cup or Confederations Cup, with a four-year period, no matter whether he wins or loses, only if the number of games meets the standard can he win the Olympics qualifications.

In addition, the number of participants in each country is also limited, which is the same as table tennis and badminton.

Of course, if a player doesn't have any interest in the Olympics, it doesn't matter whether he plays in the Davis Cup or Confederations Cup.

However, looking at it from another perspective, there is no team competition in the Olympic Games, only men’s and women’s singles, men’s and women’s doubles, and mixed doubles. This also means that the Davis Cup and the Confederations Cup are the only team championships in tennis events. Needless to say, this is also a special honor.

Moreover, the ITF has reached an agreement with the ATP and WTA respectively. Players can also win ranking points in the Davis Cup, giving players additional incentives—

Although, the points are really the level of mosquito meat.

For various reasons, almost all top big-name players have been on the stage of Davis Cup and Confederations Cup.

The Davis Cup, whose history is comparable to the four Grand Slams, originated at Harvard University in 1899.

At that time, four tennis players from Harvard University came up with the idea of ​​playing tennis with the United Kingdom. Among the four, Dwight-F-Davis (Dwight-F-Davis) planned the event and bought the trophy out of his own pocket. In 1900, the first tournament was held.

In 1905, a seat was added to the event, and a combined team from Belgium, Austria, France, and Australasia joined.

In 1914, Australia and New Zealand also entered the fray.

Originally, the event was named the "International Tennis Challenge", but it soon developed into the well-known "Davis Cup", which has continued to this day.

Now, the Davis Cup, like the Confederations Cup, is all hosted by the ITF.

After a century of development, the Davis Cup has become the only team championship in the individual sport of tennis, and its status is comparable to the World Cup.

It is precisely because of this that the qualifications for the Davis Cup are as complicated as the World Cup.

The World Cup is divided into two parts: qualifiers and finals, as is the Davis Cup:

World and regional groups.

The regional group is equivalent to the World Cup qualifiers; the world group is equivalent to the World Cup finals—

To put it simply, through the regional group competitions, the qualifying places are determined, and the world group competes for the championship. This is the core message of the entire competition system.

When it comes to details, the Davis Cup is much more complicated.

First, the world group.

The rules are simple, sixteen teams will draw lots to face each other, single-match elimination system, and finally decide the champion.

Among them, specific to each game, the five-match three-win system, three singles games, and two doubles games; a single game is the same as the Grand Slam, five-set three-win system.

About the long set tiebreaker ~www.mtlnovel.com~ The Davis Cup still adopts the long set tiebreaker, that is, there is no tiebreaker in the final set; but there are exceptions, if one side has won three games first, then the remaining games need to continue, But give up the long-set tie-breaker, and the tie-breaker will be played in the final set.

Here, there is a little special:

In the first knockout round, the eight teams that won will continue to stay in the world group next year; while the eight teams that unfortunately lost will be relegated to the regional group, and the victorious teams in the regional group need to re-fight for the right to qualify and win the world group to compete for the championship Qualifications.

In other words, the sixteen teams in the world group each year are divided into two parts:

Eight teams are the previous year's top eight; eight teams are the winners of the previous year's regional group play-offs.

Second, regional groups.

The European and African regional group, the North and South American regional group, and the Asian and Oceanian regional group, a total of three regions, are basically the same as the World Cup qualifiers according to the regional division rules, but simpler.

In the World Cup qualifiers, multiple rounds are required, the qualifying round, the first round of the group stage, the second round of the group stage, the play-offs, and the Davis Cup is the same.

To explain it in detail, it is indeed complicated to say that it is complicated, but it is also very simple to say that it is simple.

(end of this chapter)