.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States crew celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will return to a valued tradition upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will certainly go back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase relocating far from the current four-group stage events, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away ties will certainly be actually staged over two days. The seven gaining teams coming from those associations will definitely join the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will definitely change coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion beginning upcoming year in an initiative to straighten Davis Cup and also Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's information is yet another favorable step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout modifications strive to build on the excellence our team have actually observed throughout both celebrations in the last few years and also contributes towards our long-lasting aspiration to take them more in sync under the Planet 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 format, which has actually shown to become such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team stage celebrations, to pair of day home or even away ties will soothe players' schedules quickly adhering to the US Open, while keeping the strength of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Mug transformed its format in 2019, making the finals a team occasion along with a host metropolitan area, doing away with best-of-five matches, as well as making ties best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program spearheaded through ITF head of state David Haggerty and investment team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to pump amount of money into Davis Cup and ping pong around the globe.
Those modifications, particularly heading to September team phase play rather than the standard home-and-away associations incensed some critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.