.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase match in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to return to a valued tradition upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will certainly come back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase moving away from the existing four-group phase occasions, the International Tennis Federation introduced today.
Starting upcoming September, seven home-or-away ties will be presented over pair of days. The seven succeeding groups from those associations will participate in the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will certainly improve from a 12-team event to an eight-team celebration beginning upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's information is actually another beneficial progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout modifications strive to build on the success our team have seen throughout each events in recent years and also provides towards our long-lasting passion to bring all of them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has shown to become such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase from six-day team stage celebrations, to two time home or away ties will relieve gamers' schedules promptly complying with the US Open, while maintaining the strength of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Cup altered its own style in 2019, making the finals a group affair along with a lot urban area, doing away with best-of-five matches, and also making associations best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program pioneered through ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as expenditure group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to push amount of money right into Davis Cup and also ping pong internationally.
Those adjustments, significantly mosting likely to September group phase play instead of the typical home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.