.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States crew celebrate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage suit between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely resume a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will definitely return to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase moving off of the existing four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Alliance introduced today.
Beginning following September, 7 home-or-away associations will definitely be organized over pair of days. The 7 winning teams from those connections will definitely join the host country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will improve coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion beginning next year in an effort to line up Davis Cup and also Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is one more beneficial advance for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and I am actually excited for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The format modifications aim to improve the results our team have actually found all over both activities in recent years and also adds in the direction of our long-lasting passion to bring all of them even more in sync under the World Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually confirmed to become such a results. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day group stage events, to pair of time home or even away connections will relieve players' routines immediately observing the United States Open, while sustaining the strength of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Mug transformed its own format in 2019, creating the finals a group affair along with a bunch metropolitan area, doing away with best-of-five matches, and creating associations best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program directed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and financial investment group Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to push loan right into Davis Cup and also ping pong globally.
Those improvements, significantly going to September group stage play instead of the typical home-and-away ties incensed some critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.