.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA team celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage suit between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug are going to resume a valued custom following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will come back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating out of the present four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Alliance revealed today.
Starting following September, seven home-or-away associations will definitely be actually staged over pair of days. The seven succeeding groups from those ties will definitely participate in the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly enhance coming from a 12-team event to an eight-team occasion beginning next year in an effort to align Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is one more beneficial advance for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The format modifications intend to build on the success we have actually found around both activities in recent times as well as contributes towards our lasting passion to carry them extra in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually confirmed to be such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day team phase occasions, to pair of day home or even away ties will certainly reduce gamers' schedules right away observing the United States Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Cup changed its layout in 2019, creating the finals a team occasion with a multitude urban area, dealing with best-of-five matches, and making ties best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as expenditure group Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to push money right into Davis Cup and tennis around the globe.
Those changes, significantly heading to September group phase play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.