.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA group celebrate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage match in between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug are going to return to a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will certainly come back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase relocating far from the current four-group stage activities, the International Tennis Alliance revealed today.
Starting next September, seven home-or-away ties will be actually organized over two days. The 7 winning crews from those ties will certainly join the host nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will enhance from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity starting next year in an effort to straighten Davis Mug and also Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's headlines is actually another good breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The format changes intend to improve the excellence our experts have actually seen around both activities in the last few years as well as provides towards our lasting aspiration to carry them more in sync under the World Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has confirmed to be such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team phase activities, to pair of day home or away associations are going to alleviate gamers' schedules quickly observing the United States Open, while sustaining the magnitude of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Mug altered its own layout in 2019, making the finals a group function with a host urban area, dealing with best-of-five matches, and also making associations best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy led by ITF head of state David Haggerty and financial investment team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push funds into Davis Mug and also ping pong around the globe.
Those adjustments, significantly mosting likely to September team stage play rather than the traditional home-and-away connections incensed some critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.