.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States staff celebrate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase suit in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug are going to return to a valued heritage next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will certainly go back to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September phase relocating out of the existing four-group stage events, the International Ping pong Alliance announced today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away associations will be actually organized over pair of times. The seven succeeding groups coming from those ties are going to join the host country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will transform coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team occasion beginning following year in an effort to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's updates is another favorable progression for both the Billie Jean King Cup through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The style amendments intend to improve the excellence our team have actually found throughout both activities in the last few years and adds in the direction of our long-lasting passion to deliver all of them more in sync under the Globe Mug of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has proven to become such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Mug September phase from six-day group phase celebrations, to pair of day home or away connections will relieve gamers' timetables right away adhering to the US Open, while sustaining the intensity of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Cup transformed its style in 2019, making the finals a team affair with a host city, dealing with best-of-five suits, as well as making associations best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan directed through ITF president David Haggerty and assets team Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to pump loan into Davis Mug and tennis internationally.
Those modifications, notably visiting September group phase play rather than the traditional home-and-away connections incensed some critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.