.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA group commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase suit in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued practice following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will come back to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving away from the current four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Alliance revealed today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away ties will be presented over 2 times. The seven succeeding crews coming from those associations will certainly sign up with the range nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to enhance coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion starting following year in an attempt to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's information is yet another good progression for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, as well as I am thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The style changes strive to build on the success we have actually seen across each events in recent times and also contributes in the direction of our long-term passion to take them extra in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has confirmed to become such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day group stage occasions, to two time home or even away ties will alleviate gamers' schedules instantly complying with the US Open, while preserving the intensity of the competition that they all love.".
Davis Mug altered its layout in 2019, making the finals a team gathering along with a lot area, eliminating best-of-five matches, and making associations best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning headed by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to pump funds into Davis Mug and also tennis worldwide.
Those modifications, especially mosting likely to September team phase play as opposed to the standard home-and-away connections incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.