"Gerard Pique has not come to China to save the Davis Cup"

"Gerard Pique has not come to save the Davis Cup because there's nothing to save, it's a historical competition which will keep on exisiting, with or without tennis' biggest stars." 

Those are comments made to EFE Kosmos' Director General, Javier Alonso, who is in Shanghai with the Barcelona defender as part of a pre-planned visit which has nothing to do with criticism from players about the revised Davis Cup formart. 

Alonso, who works alongside Pique at Kosmos, who are revamping the Davis Cup, said: "We've not come to save anything because there's nothing to save. The Davis Cup is 118 years old and will keep getting older.

"It's a team competition and the most important things is the teams, not the players. It's a trip that's been programmed for a while.

"It coincides with Gerard having time off. Now he's not with the national team, he's free and the Masters is on. We were there (on Saturday), we spoke with Novak (Djokovic), but only as we have done a million times before."