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LONDON — The International Tennis Federation announced Thursday that the final rounds of Fed Cup, the top women’s team tennis competition, will adopt a World Cup-style format similar to the one the men’s Davis Cup switched to last year.
For the first three years, beginning in 2020, the event will be held in Budapest.
In a ceremony at the Queen’s Club, where she played in the first Fed Cup competition in 1963, Billie Jean King said she hoped that the change would be embraced in a sport often resistant to innovation.
“I just hope everybody gets behind this and they elevate it every year, because sometimes it’s a bigger risk not to take a risk,” King said.