.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA crew commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase match in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will come back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating far from the current four-group phase events, the International Tennis Alliance announced today.
Beginning next September, seven home-or-away connections will be actually presented over pair of days. The 7 succeeding crews coming from those connections will join the hold nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to transform coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team occasion beginning upcoming year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is an additional favorable breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and also I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The layout amendments intend to improve the results we have actually seen across both occasions over the last few years and also provides towards our lasting passion to carry all of them extra in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has confirmed to become such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Mug September stage from six-day team phase occasions, to two day home or away associations will ease players' timetables quickly observing the US Open, while sustaining the strength of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Mug modified its own style in 2019, making the finals a group function with a lot area, dealing with best-of-five suits, as well as creating ties best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning initiated by ITF president David Haggerty as well as investment group Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to push money in to Davis Cup and also tennis worldwide.
Those modifications, particularly going to September group stage play rather than the typical home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.