.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA crew commemorate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match between Germany and also the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will go back to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving off of the existing four-group stage activities, the International Tennis Federation announced today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away associations will be staged over two days. The 7 gaining staffs coming from those ties are going to sign up with the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely enhance coming from a 12-team event to an eight-team event starting following year in an effort to align Davis Mug and Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's headlines is one more positive advance for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, and also I am actually excited for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout changes target to build on the success our company have actually viewed around each activities in recent times and adds towards our lasting ambition to bring them extra in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually proven to be such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day group stage occasions, to two day home or even away connections will definitely ease players' timetables right away adhering to the US Open, while preserving the strength of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup altered its own format in 2019, creating the finals a team occasion along with a multitude urban area, doing away with best-of-five matches, and making associations best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan spearheaded by ITF president David Haggerty and financial investment group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump money in to Davis Mug and also tennis globally.
Those modifications, notably mosting likely to September team stage play instead of the traditional home-and-away associations incensed some critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.