.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States team celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase suit between Germany and also the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely return to a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will come back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September stage moving far from the present four-group stage activities, the International Tennis Federation revealed today.
Starting next September, seven home-or-away ties will definitely be staged over pair of times. The 7 succeeding teams from those connections will definitely participate in the hold country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for November of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will definitely change from a 12-team event to an eight-team occasion beginning upcoming year in an attempt to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is actually an additional positive advance for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually excited for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The format modifications target to improve the excellence our team have actually found around both events over the last few years and also provides towards our long-term ambition to deliver all of them a lot more in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually confirmed to be such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team phase activities, to two time home or away connections will certainly reduce players' schedules instantly complying with the US Open, while sustaining the strength of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug transformed its style in 2019, making the finals a group affair along with a bunch urban area, getting rid of best-of-five suits, and creating connections best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program directed by ITF president David Haggerty and also financial investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to push cash in to Davis Mug as well as ping pong internationally.
Those adjustments, especially visiting September group phase play rather than the traditional home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.