.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA staff commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage suit in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly return to a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will go back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating away from the existing four-group phase events, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away ties will certainly be presented over two times. The seven gaining groups coming from those associations will certainly participate in the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will definitely completely transform from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team occasion beginning following year in an effort to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's headlines is actually one more positive advance for both the Billie Jean King Cup through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The format amendments target to build on the effectiveness our team have found across both celebrations in the last few years and contributes in the direction of our long-lasting aspiration to take them more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has verified to be such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team stage occasions, to 2 time home or even away connections will certainly relieve gamers' timetables quickly adhering to the US Open, while preserving the strength of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Mug transformed its own style in 2019, making the finals a group occasion along with a multitude area, removing best-of-five suits, and creating ties best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan led by ITF head of state David Haggerty and also expenditure group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push money right into Davis Mug and tennis around the globe.
Those modifications, significantly heading to September team stage play rather than the standard home-and-away connections incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.