.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States staff celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will resume a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will certainly come back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase moving out of the existing four-group phase activities, the International Ping pong Federation revealed today.
Beginning next September, seven home-or-away connections are going to be actually organized over 2 days. The seven gaining groups from those ties will participate in the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will change from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration beginning next year in an effort to straighten Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's headlines is actually another good step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The layout modifications aim to build on the results we have seen all over both activities in recent years and also contributes in the direction of our long-lasting ambition to bring all of them a lot more in sync under the Globe Mug of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has actually confirmed to be such a results. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase from six-day group stage activities, to 2 time home or away associations will definitely soothe players' routines promptly complying with the US Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Mug changed its style in 2019, creating the finals a team function with a multitude metropolitan area, getting rid of best-of-five matches, as well as making ties best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program directed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and investment group Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump amount of money right into Davis Cup as well as ping pong internationally.
Those modifications, especially mosting likely to September team phase play as opposed to the typical home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.