Valencia joins Bologna, Glasgow and Hamburg as Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals 2022

• The Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals 2022 group stage will take place across four cities on 14-18 September

• Malaga will host the knock-out stage of the 2022 Finals on 21-27 November

• Draw for the Finals will take place in Malaga today (26 April) at 13:15 CEST (11:15 GMT)
  

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) and Kosmos Tennis have today announced that Valencia will be the fourth host city for the Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals 2022 group stage – joining Bologna, Glasgow and Hamburg, which were announced as group stage host venues last month. Valencia was selected by the Davis Cup Committee and ITF Board on 25 April after careful review of all bids received.

The event in Valencia will take place at the Pabellón Municipal Fuente de San Luis. All stages of the 2022 Finals will be played on indoor hard courts.

Each group stage host city will host one group of four teams on 14-18 September 2022. The top two teams in each group will advance to the knock-out stage, which will be hosted at the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena in Malaga, Spain on 21-27 November 2022.

Valencia has previously played host to the competition on multiple occasions – most recently in 2018, when Spain overcame Germany 3-2 in a quarterfinal tie played on a clay court at the Plaza de Toros de Valencia, with David Ferrer defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber in a decisive fifth match.

Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals 2022 Draw

The draw for the 2022 Finals will take place in Malaga today (Tuesday 26 April) at 13:15 CEST (11:15 GMT).

Croatia, as runners-up in 2021, are seeded No. 1 for this year’s Finals, with Spain, France and USA also seeded based on the latest Davis Cup Nations Ranking.

The 16 nations competing in the 2022 Finals have been placed into four pots. The four seeded nations are in Pot 1, while the remaining 12 nations have been distributed in Pots 2-4 according to the latest Davis Cup Nations Ranking.

One nation from each pot will be drawn into each of the four round-robin groups, with the four host nations placed in different groups.

The top two teams in each group will progress to the knock-out stage of the Davis Cup Finals 2022. The draw for the knock-out stage (which will also take place today) will see the four group winners drawn against the four group runners-up in the quarter-finals.