.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA staff celebrate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage match between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will definitely come back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving away from the existing four-group stage activities, the International Tennis Federation introduced today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away connections will definitely be actually staged over two days. The 7 winning groups from those connections are going to participate in the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will certainly completely transform coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team celebration beginning upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's headlines is one more good step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The layout changes target to improve the effectiveness our company have actually found across both activities in recent times and provides in the direction of our long-lasting passion to take all of them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has verified to become such a success. Moving the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day group stage events, to two time home or away associations will soothe players' routines promptly adhering to the US Open, while sustaining the strength of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Cup changed its own layout in 2019, creating the finals a team affair with a multitude area, eliminating best-of-five matches, as well as creating associations best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy initiated through ITF president David Haggerty and financial investment team Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to pump amount of money in to Davis Mug and ping pong around the globe.
Those modifications, especially visiting September group phase play rather than the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.