Buoyed by the success of the multi-city format of this year’s Davis Cup Finals, the 2022 edition of the men’s team competition will be held across five cities, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Sunday. This year’s 18-nation competition was staged across three cities—Madrid, Turin, and Innsbruck—and the Russian Tennis Federation and Croatia will meet in the final in the Spanish capital later on Sunday. The 2022 Finals will see 16 nations competing in four groups across four cities with the top eight teams advancing to the knock-out stages in a neutral fifth host city, the ITF and event owners Kosmos Tennis said. “For the group stages we envision all four of those being teams that are competing in the competition,” ITF chief David Haggerty told Reuters, adding that the governing body expects to make a decision on the host cities in March. “And then when we go to …