.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage match between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly resume a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout are going to return to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating away from the present four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away ties are going to be organized over two times. The 7 succeeding teams from those ties are going to sign up with the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will change from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team occasion beginning upcoming year in an effort to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's updates is an additional beneficial advance for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, and I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty said. "The layout changes intend to build on the success we have viewed around both celebrations lately as well as provides in the direction of our lasting passion to bring all of them more in sync under the World Mug of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has verified to become such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day group phase celebrations, to two time home or even away connections will reduce gamers' timetables quickly complying with the US Open, while keeping the strength of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Mug modified its own layout in 2019, creating the finals a group function along with a lot city, removing best-of-five matches, and making ties best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning headed by ITF president David Haggerty as well as expenditure team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to push loan into Davis Cup and tennis globally.
Those adjustments, significantly heading to September group stage play rather than the conventional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.