.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States group commemorate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage suit in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format are going to come back to the typical home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating away from the existing four-group stage events, the International Ping pong Federation introduced today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away connections will be actually staged over two times. The seven gaining staffs from those connections will certainly join the host country in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will improve from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity beginning following year in an attempt to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is actually an additional favorable progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout changes target to build on the results our team have viewed throughout both celebrations over the last few years as well as provides towards our lasting aspiration to carry all of them a lot more in sync under the World Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has actually verified to become such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team stage celebrations, to 2 day home or even away connections will relieve players' schedules promptly adhering to the United States Open, while keeping the intensity of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Cup modified its own layout in 2019, making the finals a group occasion along with a bunch area, removing best-of-five matches, and making associations best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning headed through ITF president David Haggerty and assets team Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump amount of money right into Davis Cup and also tennis worldwide.
Those adjustments, significantly visiting September group stage play instead of the traditional home-and-away connections incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.