.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase match in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely resume a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style are going to return to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating far from the current four-group phase celebrations, the International Tennis Alliance revealed today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away ties will certainly be actually presented over two times. The 7 winning staffs coming from those connections will certainly sign up with the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals are going to change coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team activity starting following year in an initiative to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's updates is actually an additional beneficial step forward for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The format changes target to build on the effectiveness we have actually viewed around both events recently as well as contributes towards our long-term ambition to carry them even more in sync under the World Cup of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has actually shown to be such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team stage events, to pair of time home or even away connections will reduce gamers' routines instantly observing the United States Open, while keeping the strength of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Mug altered its own style in 2019, making the finals a group function with a multitude urban area, dealing with best-of-five matches, and also creating associations best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning initiated by ITF president David Haggerty and also expenditure group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to pump loan in to Davis Cup and ping pong worldwide.
Those modifications, especially mosting likely to September group stage play as opposed to the standard home-and-away connections incensed some critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.