.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage match in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will return to a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will certainly come back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating away from the existing four-group stage events, the International Tennis Alliance declared today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away ties will certainly be actually presented over two times. The seven succeeding staffs from those ties are going to participate in the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly change from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity starting next year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is actually yet another good breakthrough for both the Billie Jean King Mug by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The format changes aim to improve the success our team have actually viewed all over both occasions in recent times and also contributes towards our long-term ambition to bring them even more in sync under the World Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has actually confirmed to be such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team phase occasions, to 2 day home or even away connections will certainly alleviate gamers' timetables right away complying with the United States Open, while sustaining the magnitude of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug transformed its format in 2019, making the finals a team affair with a lot area, removing best-of-five matches, as well as creating associations best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program headed by ITF president David Haggerty and expenditure group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to push loan in to Davis Cup and tennis internationally.
Those modifications, especially mosting likely to September group stage play as opposed to the traditional home-and-away connections incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.