.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States staff celebrate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage match in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug are going to return to a valued heritage following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will come back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating out of the current four-group phase celebrations, the International Tennis Alliance announced today.
Starting upcoming September, seven home-or-away associations will certainly be actually organized over two days. The seven succeeding staffs from those ties will certainly sign up with the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will completely transform from a 12-team event to an eight-team occasion starting next year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's headlines is one more beneficial progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty said. "The style changes intend to improve the effectiveness our team have viewed across each occasions lately and also contributes towards our long-lasting passion to take them extra in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has actually verified to be such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage from six-day group phase celebrations, to 2 time home or even away ties will definitely ease gamers' routines quickly adhering to the United States Open, while preserving the intensity of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Cup altered its own style in 2019, making the finals a group gathering with a multitude city, eliminating best-of-five matches, and creating connections best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy led through ITF head of state David Haggerty and also assets group Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to pump money in to Davis Cup as well as ping pong worldwide.
Those changes, notably mosting likely to September group phase play as opposed to the typical home-and-away ties incensed some critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.