.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase match in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued custom next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will certainly come back to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September phase moving out of the existing four-group stage events, the International Tennis Alliance announced today.
Beginning next September, seven home-or-away connections will certainly be actually organized over 2 times. The seven winning groups coming from those ties will certainly join the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely change coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity beginning upcoming year in an effort to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's updates is actually one more good step forward for both the Billie Jean King Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, and also I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout modifications aim to improve the results our team have actually viewed all over each celebrations recently as well as provides towards our long-term passion to bring all of them a lot more in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually proven to be such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day group phase activities, to 2 day home or even away associations are going to alleviate players' routines quickly observing the United States Open, while keeping the strength of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Mug altered its own format in 2019, creating the finals a group function with a bunch metropolitan area, eliminating best-of-five matches, as well as creating connections best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty and assets group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup finishing with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump loan in to Davis Mug and also tennis globally.
Those changes, notably heading to September team stage play as opposed to the standard home-and-away associations incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.