.( 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 Mug Finals Team Phase match in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will certainly go back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving off of the current four-group phase celebrations, the International Tennis Alliance introduced today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away connections will definitely be actually presented over 2 times. The 7 succeeding groups coming from those associations will definitely join the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will definitely change from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team occasion starting next year in an initiative to straighten Davis Cup and also Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's updates is actually one more positive step forward for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The format amendments intend to build on the excellence our team have viewed around each events over the last few years and also adds in the direction of our lasting ambition to take them even more in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has proven to become such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team stage celebrations, to two time home or away connections are going to relieve players' schedules right away adhering to the US Open, while preserving the intensity of the competitors that they all like.".
Davis Mug modified its layout in 2019, making the finals a group function with a lot city, dealing with best-of-five matches, and also making connections best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning headed by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as assets team Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup finishing with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump cash into Davis Mug and also ping pong worldwide.
Those adjustments, notably going to September group stage play rather than the standard home-and-away associations incensed some critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.