.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States group commemorate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage suit between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to resume a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will definitely return to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating off of the current four-group stage celebrations, the International Ping pong Federation introduced today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away ties will definitely be actually staged over pair of times. The seven gaining crews coming from those connections will definitely participate in the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals are going to enhance from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity starting upcoming year in an attempt to straighten Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's updates is actually yet another good progression for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty said. "The format amendments aim to improve the success our company have found around both events lately as well as provides towards our lasting aspiration to deliver them extra in sync under the World Mug of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has verified to be such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day team phase activities, to pair of day home or away connections are going to ease gamers' timetables right away observing the US Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Mug modified its own format in 2019, making the finals a team affair with a multitude city, eliminating best-of-five matches, and also making connections best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty and also investment team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to push amount of money into Davis Mug and also ping pong globally.
Those improvements, particularly visiting September group stage play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.