.( 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 Team Stage suit in between Germany as well as 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 resume a valued practice upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will come back to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving away from the existing four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Federation declared today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away connections are going to be actually organized over pair of times. The 7 succeeding groups coming from those associations are going to sign up with the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to change coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity starting upcoming year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's headlines is an additional positive breakthrough for both the Billie Jean King Mug by Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, and also I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The format amendments aim to improve the effectiveness we have observed around each celebrations in the last few years and also contributes in the direction of our long-lasting aspiration to take them extra in sync under the World Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has verified to become such an excellence. Moving the Davis Mug September phase from six-day group phase celebrations, to two time home or away ties will alleviate gamers' schedules immediately observing the United States Open, while sustaining the magnitude of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup changed its own format in 2019, creating the finals a team affair with a host area, doing away with best-of-five suits, and creating connections best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan spearheaded by ITF president David Haggerty and assets team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump funds right into Davis Cup as well as tennis globally.
Those modifications, notably visiting September team phase play rather than the traditional home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.