.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA staff commemorate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage match in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely return to a valued tradition next year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will definitely go back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating far from the current four-group phase activities, the International Ping pong Alliance introduced today.
Starting next September, seven home-or-away connections are going to be organized over 2 days. The seven gaining crews coming from those associations are going to join the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to change from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team activity beginning upcoming year in an attempt to straighten Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's news is actually yet another positive progression for both the Billie Jean King Cup through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, as well as I am thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The layout changes intend to improve the excellence our team have found throughout each celebrations lately and adds in the direction of our long-term passion to take them much more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually confirmed to be such a results. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase from six-day group stage celebrations, to 2 time home or away associations will certainly ease gamers' schedules quickly adhering to the United States Open, while maintaining the intensity of the competition that they all love.".
Davis Mug transformed its own style in 2019, creating the finals a group function along with a bunch metropolitan area, doing away with best-of-five suits, and also creating associations best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning pioneered by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as assets group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup winding up with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push loan in to Davis Cup and ping pong around the globe.
Those improvements, notably heading to September group phase play instead of the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.