.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA team commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase suit between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly return to a valued tradition next year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will definitely return to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving far from the existing four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation introduced today.
Starting upcoming September, seven home-or-away ties are going to be presented over pair of days. The 7 gaining staffs coming from those ties will certainly participate in the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely improve coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team occasion beginning upcoming year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is yet another favorable step forward for both the Billie Jean King Cup through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The style modifications aim to build on the effectiveness our team have actually seen all over both events in the last few years and also provides towards our lasting ambition to deliver them much more in sync under the Planet Mug of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has proven to become such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Mug September stage from six-day group stage occasions, to two time home or even away connections will definitely soothe players' timetables instantly adhering to the United States Open, while maintaining the intensity of the competition that they all love.".
Davis Cup transformed its own layout in 2019, making the finals a group gathering with a lot city, removing best-of-five matches, and also creating associations best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan headed by ITF president David Haggerty and also assets group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to pump funds into Davis Mug as well as tennis worldwide.
Those changes, notably visiting September team phase play instead of the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.