.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA crew commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match in between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued custom following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout are going to return to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating far from the present four-group stage occasions, the International Tennis Alliance declared today.
Beginning following September, 7 home-or-away connections are going to be presented over two days. The seven winning crews from those associations will certainly join the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly improve from a 12-team activity to an eight-team celebration beginning following year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's information is an additional positive progression for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and also I am actually excited for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty mentioned. "The format modifications intend to improve the effectiveness our experts have observed all over each occasions in the last few years and provides towards our long-term ambition to carry all of them even more in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually verified to become such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day group phase activities, to pair of day home or even away associations will certainly soothe gamers' schedules right away complying with the United States Open, while preserving the magnitude of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup altered its style in 2019, creating the finals a team affair with a multitude area, getting rid of best-of-five matches, as well as making associations best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program spearheaded by ITF president David Haggerty as well as investment team Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push cash into Davis Mug as well as ping pong worldwide.
Those modifications, significantly mosting likely to September group phase play rather than the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.