.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA crew celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase match between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF. Davis Mug are going to return to a valued heritage following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will go back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating out of the existing four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Federation revealed today. Starting next September, seven home-or-away associations will certainly be actually staged over 2 days. The 7 winning teams coming from those connections are going to sign up with the hold nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will definitely change coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion beginning upcoming year in an initiative to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup. ” Today’s headlines is one more beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and also I am delighted for the future of both competitors,” ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. “The format amendments intend to build on the excellence our company have actually found throughout each events over the last few years as well as adds towards our long-term aspiration to take all of them even more in sync under the Planet Mug of Tennis ensign.
” In Billie Jean Master Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has actually verified to be such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage events, to 2 time home or away ties will soothe gamers’ schedules promptly observing the United States Open, while keeping the magnitude of the competition that they all enjoy.”. Davis Cup changed its format in 2019, creating the finals a group affair with a bunch area, dealing with best-of-five matches, and also creating connections best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy led by ITF president David Haggerty and also financial investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to pump loan right into Davis Mug and ping pong globally. Those improvements, particularly visiting September group stage play instead of the typical home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.