The World Team Cup tennis tournament will no longer take place after organizers failed to secure a main sponsor for 2011.

The World Team Cup is the international team championship of the ATP and is generally considered to be second most prestigious men's team competition in tennis after the Davis Cup.

The event has been held in Dusseldorf for the last 33 years since its inception in 1978 but has run into financial difficulties after failing to find a new sponsor after ARAG withdrew its support.

In 2010, ARAG funded the tournament to the tune of 1.3 million euros (1.7 million dollars).

"We couldn't take the financial risk, the gap in our budget was simply too large," said tournament director Dietloff von Arnim.

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