.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Street to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase match between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to return to a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will definitely go back to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating off of the current four-group phase celebrations, the International Tennis Federation revealed today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away connections will certainly be actually organized over 2 times. The seven winning teams from those associations will definitely join the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will improve coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team celebration beginning next year in an initiative to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is actually another favorable step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, and also I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The format modifications strive to build on the excellence we have actually observed throughout both occasions lately as well as contributes towards our lasting aspiration to bring all of them much more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has verified to become such a success. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage from six-day team phase events, to pair of day home or even away associations will certainly soothe gamers' routines immediately complying with the US Open, while keeping the intensity of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Cup altered its style in 2019, making the finals a team occasion with a bunch city, removing best-of-five suits, and making ties best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program spearheaded by ITF president David Haggerty as well as financial investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to push loan right into Davis Mug and also tennis globally.
Those adjustments, significantly going to September group phase play instead of the standard home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.