.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA team celebrate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely return to a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will certainly go back to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating out of the present four-group phase occasions, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away ties will be actually presented over two days. The 7 succeeding crews coming from those ties will definitely participate in the hold country in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will change coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team celebration beginning following year in an attempt to straighten Davis Cup and also Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's information is another beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout amendments strive to build on the success our company have found all over both events recently and also adds towards our long-term passion to deliver all of them much more in sync under the Planet Mug of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has actually confirmed to become such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage from six-day group stage events, to pair of time home or even away associations are going to relieve gamers' timetables promptly adhering to the United States Open, while keeping the strength of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug changed its own format in 2019, making the finals a group gathering along with a host city, removing best-of-five suits, and making ties best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program initiated by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as expenditure group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to pump cash right into Davis Cup and tennis globally.
Those modifications, notably visiting September team phase play as opposed to the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.