The Rafael Nadal effect: here is how many people attended Davis Cup
In a press conference the Davis Cup investor Gerard Pique shared the secrets behind the success of this year's event. Spain reached the final and Rafael Nadal played singles and doubles most of the days and all the sessions featuring Spain were sold out. "Here there are more than 650 journalists from 25 different countries", said Pique. "The competition has been followed in 121 different countries. We had in the venue during this week more than 130,000 people. So I think that these are incredible numbers. You can see the impact in different countries through social media, through, like, media of all the people that are following. Just to give you an example yesterday, how many people traveled from UK just to follow the semifinal against Spain, how the players were involved so this could happen.
I want just to remind one thing. When we started, we said: New year, same soul. I think that the best thing that we can keep from this year, this Davis Cup Finals, is the soul. How the players, they cried when they lose. The example of Serbia, when they came here and they lost in the last tiebreak, and they were in tears. Or how they celebrate, how passion, either celebrations when Canada qualifies yesterday after the tiebreak, the last tiebreak of the last game against Russia. And they qualified for the first time in a Davis Cup Final I think. These kind of emotions are just so unique and that we have to preserve them. So I'm very, very happy that this happened all this week. We are very excited to work very hard for next year, for 2020. And to organize an even bigger and better event."
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