.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA crew commemorate Street to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase match between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely return to a valued tradition upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will return to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase moving out of the current four-group stage occasions, the International Ping pong Alliance revealed today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away connections will definitely be staged over 2 days. The 7 succeeding teams coming from those associations are going to sign up with the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will improve coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team event beginning following year in an attempt to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is one more positive step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout amendments strive to improve the success we have actually found around both events lately as well as adds in the direction of our long-term passion to carry all of them much more in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually proven to be such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September phase from six-day team stage events, to two time home or away associations are going to soothe gamers' timetables immediately adhering to the US Open, while sustaining the magnitude of the competition that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup changed its own style in 2019, making the finals a group function with a host area, eliminating best-of-five suits, as well as making ties best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan pioneered through ITF head of state David Haggerty and financial investment group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to pump funds in to Davis Mug and also tennis internationally.
Those improvements, especially mosting likely to September team stage play instead of the standard home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.