Coinciding and nearly overlapping with the Davis Cup in Malaga, the Billie Jean King Cup (BJKC) kick off on the Carpena Palacio de Deportes on Wednesday, November 13.
Simply earlier than the worldwide males’s competitors, which is drawing a gaggle of media from all around the world to witness Rafa Nadal’s remaining skilled tennis match, the ladies’s competitors will guarantee Malaga will turn out to be the tennis capital of the world in November.
The meeting and organisation of the 2 occasions collectively make for this being the most important sporting occasion within the historical past of the Costa del Sol. Malaga has been reworked in latest weeks to turn out to be the epicentre of world tennis, formally between now, the day on which Billie Jean King begins via till Wednesday 20, and on Sunday, November 24, the date of the grand remaining of the lads’s Davis Cup.
Unprecedented Billie Jean King & Davis Cup occasions
For the primary time in historical past, the 2 staff tennis competitions coincide in date and place, so the organisers have had an ‘unprecedented funding in tennis in Spain’ by way of infrastructure development, stated the director of operations of the Davis Cup, Gonzalo García, with out disclosing a monetary quantity.
An improvised ‘Olympic village’ has been constructed to deal with the game’s elite on a scale by no means seen earlier than within the area. Hospitality tents, VIP areas, and an esplanade for hundreds of spectators to collect have all been hurriedly put collectively. Coaching courts, gyms and kitchens, medical and therapeutic massage zones, in addition to non-public zones for every of the nationwide groups, all kind a part of the large arrange.
For the BJKC gamers, there are an entire host of amenities, together with eating places, medical doctors, and physiotherapists all organised by the ITF, who will all must shift out to make means instantly after for the Davis Cup’s solid of hundreds organisation to maneuver in instantly after.
Malaga metropolis will turn out to be a media circus as all eyes of the sporting world will deal with the Andalusian metropolis throughout the coming fortnight.