.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA team celebrate Street to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase suit between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will return to a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will certainly come back to the typical home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating far from the present four-group stage occasions, the International Tennis Alliance revealed today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away ties will be staged over pair of days. The 7 winning staffs coming from those ties will definitely join the hold nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals are going to transform from a 12-team event to an eight-team occasion starting next year in an initiative to straighten Davis Cup and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is actually another good advance for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and I am delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The layout changes strive to improve the effectiveness our company have actually found all over both occasions recently as well as adds towards our long-term ambition to bring all of them a lot more in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has proven to be such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Mug September stage from six-day group phase celebrations, to 2 time home or away connections will definitely relieve players' routines immediately complying with the United States Open, while sustaining the magnitude of the competition that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup altered its own format in 2019, making the finals a group occasion along with a lot metropolitan area, dealing with best-of-five suits, and also creating connections best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program directed through ITF president David Haggerty as well as assets team Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push amount of money right into Davis Cup and tennis globally.
Those modifications, notably heading to September group phase play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.