.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Street to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage suit in between Germany and also the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly return to a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will definitely come back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating off of the present four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Alliance declared today.
Starting next September, seven home-or-away connections will be actually organized over 2 days. The 7 succeeding crews coming from those connections will certainly sign up with the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to enhance from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration starting upcoming year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is actually one more beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty stated. "The format amendments target to build on the excellence our team have actually viewed all over both celebrations in recent times and provides in the direction of our long-term ambition to deliver them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has actually proven to become such an excellence. Moving the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day team phase celebrations, to 2 day home or even away associations are going to alleviate players' routines quickly following the United States Open, while maintaining the intensity of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Cup transformed its own layout in 2019, making the finals a group function with a lot urban area, dealing with best-of-five suits, and making connections best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program headed through ITF president David Haggerty as well as investment group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push loan into Davis Mug as well as tennis internationally.
Those changes, significantly going to September team stage play rather than the typical home-and-away ties incensed some doubters, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.