David Kahn, Columnist

Team Tennis Needs Some March Madness

Bringing the dull Davis and Fed Cups into the Internet age.

September 23, 2015 at 5:31 PM UTC

David Kahn has been general manager of the Indiana Pacers, president of the Minnesota Timberwolves, head of the Oregon Stadium Campaign for Major League Baseball and is currently teaching two courses on sports economics at New York University.

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Leaders of tennis federations from around the world are meeting in Santiago, Chile, this week to select their new president. It's a critical election for tennis because there's a real opportunity to revamp the sport's international team championships -- the 115-year-old Davis Cup for men and the Fed Cup for women -- into compelling events more in tune with the 21st-century viewer, not to mention the 10-year-old wunderkind who once might have pursued football but now is looking for a safer sport.

Unless you're Bud Collins or Mary Carillo, you probably don't even know who won last year (Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka's Switzerland team won the Davis Cup, while Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova led the Czech Republic to the Fed Cup), or that the 2015 Davis Cup semifinals were played last weekend, with the U.K. beating Australia and Belgium topping Argentina.