.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States group commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase suit in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format are going to come back to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September stage moving out of the current four-group stage events, the International Tennis Alliance revealed today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away associations will definitely be actually staged over pair of times. The seven gaining staffs from those connections will participate in the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to change coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team event beginning upcoming year in an effort to align Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's headlines is an additional good breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am excited for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty stated. "The layout modifications target to build on the excellence our company have actually seen throughout both activities lately and also contributes in the direction of our long-lasting aspiration to carry all of them even more in sync under the Globe Mug of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has shown to become such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage occasions, to pair of day home or even away ties will certainly ease gamers' routines immediately adhering to the US Open, while maintaining the intensity of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Mug altered its own style in 2019, creating the finals a group function along with a multitude urban area, dealing with best-of-five matches, and also creating associations best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan pioneered by ITF head of state David Haggerty and assets team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to pump money in to Davis Cup and also ping pong globally.
Those changes, particularly going to September team phase play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away connections incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.