.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States team celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase suit between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will resume a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format are going to go back to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating off of the present four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation introduced today.
Beginning following September, seven home-or-away connections will certainly be actually presented over 2 times. The 7 succeeding groups coming from those associations will certainly join the range nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will definitely change coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion beginning following year in an attempt to line up Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's headlines is an additional favorable advance for both the Billie Jean King Mug by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and also I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty said. "The format modifications strive to improve the success our experts have actually seen all over each occasions lately and also adds towards our long-term passion to bring them a lot more in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually verified to be such a results. Moving the Davis Mug September stage from six-day team stage events, to two day home or away connections will alleviate gamers' routines immediately complying with the United States Open, while sustaining the intensity of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Mug altered its own format in 2019, creating the finals a group function with a lot metropolitan area, eliminating best-of-five matches, and also making ties best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy pioneered by ITF head of state David Haggerty and expenditure group Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to push amount of money into Davis Mug and also ping pong internationally.
Those adjustments, especially going to September group stage play rather than the conventional home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.