.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage match between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued tradition upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will go back to the typical home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving away from the current four-group phase activities, the International Ping pong Alliance revealed today.
Beginning next September, seven home-or-away connections will definitely be presented over pair of days. The 7 winning groups coming from those connections will participate in the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will completely transform coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity beginning next year in an attempt to straighten Davis Cup and also Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's headlines is one more good progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually excited for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The format amendments aim to build on the results we have actually viewed all over each celebrations over the last few years and also contributes towards our long-lasting ambition to take them extra in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually verified to become such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage activities, to 2 day home or even away connections will certainly soothe players' timetables instantly observing the US Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug changed its style in 2019, making the finals a group gathering with a bunch area, dealing with best-of-five suits, as well as creating associations best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning pioneered by ITF president David Haggerty as well as expenditure group Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to push amount of money right into Davis Cup and also ping pong worldwide.
Those improvements, especially heading to September team phase play as opposed to the typical home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.