.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States crew commemorate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued tradition next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout are going to come back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving far from the existing four-group phase celebrations, the International Ping pong Alliance declared today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away connections will definitely be presented over 2 times. The 7 winning staffs from those associations will certainly join the range nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to completely transform from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team event beginning upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is yet another beneficial step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and also I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout changes intend to improve the success our experts have actually observed around both celebrations lately and also contributes in the direction of our lasting passion to carry all of them extra in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has proven to be such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage celebrations, to pair of time home or even away connections will definitely reduce players' timetables promptly observing the US Open, while preserving the strength of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Mug changed its own layout in 2019, creating the finals a group function along with a multitude area, getting rid of best-of-five suits, as well as creating associations best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy led by ITF president David Haggerty as well as financial investment group Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to push money in to Davis Mug and also tennis worldwide.
Those modifications, significantly heading to September group phase play instead of the traditional home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.