.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage suit in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to resume a valued heritage following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style are going to return to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase moving far from the existing four-group phase activities, the International Ping pong Federation declared today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away connections will be presented over pair of days. The seven gaining crews from those ties are going to join the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will definitely transform coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity beginning upcoming year in an initiative to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's headlines is another beneficial advance for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and also I am thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The style amendments strive to improve the excellence our experts have actually seen across each celebrations recently and also contributes towards our lasting passion to take them even more in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has verified to become such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team stage celebrations, to 2 day home or away associations will reduce gamers' timetables immediately complying with the US Open, while keeping the strength of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Cup transformed its format in 2019, making the finals a group affair along with a lot urban area, doing away with best-of-five suits, and making ties best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy headed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and also financial investment group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump amount of money into Davis Mug and also tennis internationally.
Those adjustments, especially heading to September group phase play instead of the traditional home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.