.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA staff celebrate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase suit between Germany and also the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued heritage next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will return to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving away from the current four-group phase celebrations, the International Tennis Federation revealed today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away associations will definitely be staged over 2 times. The 7 succeeding teams coming from those associations will participate in the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to enhance from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity beginning following year in an effort to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's headlines is an additional beneficial progression for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty mentioned. "The style amendments strive to improve the success our experts have observed around both celebrations in recent years as well as contributes in the direction of our long-lasting ambition to carry them much more in sync under the Globe Cup of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually proven to be such a results. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team stage celebrations, to pair of time home or even away associations will definitely soothe gamers' schedules instantly complying with the US Open, while preserving the magnitude of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Mug transformed its own format in 2019, creating the finals a group affair along with a lot area, doing away with best-of-five matches, and making connections best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program spearheaded through ITF head of state David Haggerty and also expenditure team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push funds in to Davis Mug as well as ping pong around the globe.
Those modifications, especially going to September team phase play instead of the conventional home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.