.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage suit between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely resume a valued practice following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style are going to return to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase moving away from the existing four-group phase events, the International Tennis Alliance announced today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away associations are going to be organized over pair of days. The 7 succeeding staffs from those ties will certainly sign up with the hold country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly enhance coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team event starting following year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is actually yet another favorable progression for both the Billie Jean King Mug by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and also I am excited for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout changes strive to build on the excellence we have actually seen all over both celebrations lately and adds in the direction of our lasting passion to carry all of them even more in sync under the World Mug of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually proven to become such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase from six-day team stage activities, to two time home or away associations are going to soothe players' timetables right away adhering to the United States Open, while maintaining the intensity of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug altered its own format in 2019, making the finals a group gathering with a bunch area, eliminating best-of-five matches, as well as making connections best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan led by ITF president David Haggerty as well as investment group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump cash in to Davis Mug as well as tennis globally.
Those improvements, significantly going to September team phase play rather than the typical home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.