"It's a really similar event and it's literally back-to-back from the other one, so it's a little bit of a weird sensation coming from what felt like the world championships coming to play another world championship," Shapovalov said. "So for me I don't see why they, the ATP and ITF can't combine, can't join, can't come to some agreement and make just one, really unique and special tournament for everyone." When asked about the Canadian's comments, Djokovic, who heads the ATP players' council, agreed. "We need to have one Super World Cup event, whatever you want to call it," he said.

"That's not going to happen next year as well. But if the two sides, the ITF, the Davis Cup, and the ATP get together very quickly, it can happen possibly for 2022. "I hope it will happen because it's kind of hard to get top players to commit to play both events, the Davis Cup and the ATP Cup. And it's six weeks apart, so they're not really helping each other in terms of marketing, in terms of the value of the event."

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Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic

Djokovic's concerns were shared by World No. 1 Nadal, who also questioned the timing of the events. "Yeah, is confusing to have two World Cups of tennis in one month. For me personally that's not the ideal situation for our sport, but that's how it works today," he said in Perth. Asked if the two should be combined into one world championship, he replied: "I think that tennis deserves something like this."

Mahut agrees too

France's Nicolas Mahut also said having two men's team competitions was "too much". "Obviously, we don't need two competitions the same way. Two team competitions is too much," he said.

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