.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA group commemorate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage match in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug are going to return to a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout are going to return to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving away from the present four-group phase occasions, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away associations will certainly be staged over pair of days. The seven gaining teams coming from those connections will definitely participate in the hold country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely change from a 12-team event to an eight-team event beginning next year in an effort to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's headlines is one more favorable breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am excited for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty said. "The format modifications intend to improve the excellence our company have actually observed all over each events in recent times and also adds in the direction of our long-lasting ambition to bring all of them more in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has shown to become such a results. Moving the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day team stage occasions, to two time home or away connections will reduce players' routines promptly observing the US Open, while maintaining the intensity of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup transformed its own layout in 2019, creating the finals a team affair along with a lot city, doing away with best-of-five matches, and creating associations best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning pioneered through ITF president David Haggerty and investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push cash into Davis Cup and also ping pong worldwide.
Those adjustments, particularly going to September group stage play rather than the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.