.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States crew commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase match between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly resume a valued heritage next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format are going to return to the standard home-and-away ties in the September stage moving far from the current four-group stage celebrations, the International Ping pong Alliance declared today.
Starting upcoming September, seven home-or-away associations will definitely be actually presented over pair of days. The 7 winning staffs coming from those connections will definitely sign up with the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will definitely completely transform from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity beginning next year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is another favorable step forward for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, as well as I am excited for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The style changes strive to improve the success our company have actually viewed all over each occasions in the last few years and adds in the direction of our long-term ambition to carry them more in sync under the World Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has verified to be such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day group phase occasions, to two day home or even away connections are going to reduce gamers' timetables quickly adhering to the United States Open, while sustaining the strength of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Cup modified its own layout in 2019, making the finals a team occasion with a bunch urban area, doing away with best-of-five matches, and creating associations best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy initiated by ITF head of state David Haggerty and also investment group Kosmos, led by former 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 terminated its 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push amount of money in to Davis Mug and tennis around the globe.
Those improvements, especially mosting likely to September team phase play rather than the standard home-and-away ties incensed some doubters, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.