“Zverev, for example, is one of those who has said that he dreamed of winning the Davis Cup for a lifetime.
“But things evolve, just as there was no Hawkeye before and now there is. We will all have to get used to it, there is no other choice.”
Verdasco also admitted that, while the new format lost the magic of the home and away aspect of a tie, the new one-week schedule was something players had wanted.
He continued: “When I played the Davis Cup, all the players complained asking for this new format, we wanted a Davis Cup of ten days at the end of the season and not have to play four qualifiers spread throughout the year.
“Sometimes you went from playing the Australian Open, to playing indoors to Belarus and then to South America on clay. In three weeks you were playing on three different surfaces, the worst for a player.
“The factor of playing at home or playing outside was very good, in a stadium of 8,000 people you had the public with you or you had it against you, that made it special. But if we talk about the calendar, we all asked for this format.”
