.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA team commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase match in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely return to a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will return to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating out of the present four-group stage occasions, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away ties will definitely be actually staged over pair of days. The seven succeeding staffs coming from those ties are going to participate in the hold nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to improve coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration beginning upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's information is one more positive step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty stated. "The style amendments aim to improve the excellence our company have actually observed throughout each occasions in recent years as well as contributes in the direction of our lasting passion to take them a lot more in sync under the World Cup of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has verified to be such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage activities, to 2 day home or even away ties are going to relieve gamers' routines instantly complying with the United States Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Cup modified its layout in 2019, making the finals a group function with a lot urban area, eliminating best-of-five suits, and also making associations best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy headed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and also expenditure group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to pump loan in to Davis Mug as well as ping pong around the globe.
Those modifications, particularly heading to September team stage play instead of the typical home-and-away ties incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.