.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage match 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 are going to return to a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will certainly go back to the typical home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving out of the current four-group phase events, the International Tennis Alliance announced today. Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away ties will definitely be actually staged over pair of days. The seven winning groups from those connections are going to join the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals are going to improve from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration beginning next year in an attempt to align Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Mug. ” Today’s headlines is an additional favorable progression for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, as well as I am delighted for the future of both competitors,” ITF President David Haggerty claimed. “The format modifications intend to improve the effectiveness we have actually found throughout each occasions over the last few years and provides in the direction of our lasting aspiration to bring them more in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong streamer.
” In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually confirmed to be such a results. Moving the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day group phase occasions, to pair of time home or even away connections will ease players’ routines promptly complying with the US Open, while keeping the intensity of the competition that they all adore.”. Davis Mug altered its own format in 2019, creating the finals a team occasion along with a host area, removing best-of-five suits, and creating ties best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty and investment group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to pump money in to Davis Cup and ping pong internationally. Those modifications, particularly going to September team phase play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.