.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA staff celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase suit between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will come back to the typical home-and-away ties in the September phase moving out of the existing four-group stage celebrations, the International Ping pong Alliance revealed today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away associations will be actually organized over pair of times. The seven winning groups from those associations will certainly sign up with the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals are going to enhance coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion starting next year in an attempt to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's headlines is actually an additional positive progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, and I am delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout changes aim to improve the excellence our experts have observed around both events in recent times and also contributes in the direction of our long-lasting ambition to carry them much more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has confirmed to become such a results. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage from six-day team phase celebrations, to two day home or away connections will certainly relieve players' schedules quickly following the US Open, while preserving the strength of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Cup altered its own style in 2019, making the finals a team affair along with a lot area, doing away with best-of-five suits, as well as creating connections best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program directed by ITF president David Haggerty and assets group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump amount of money right into Davis Mug and tennis globally.
Those changes, significantly mosting likely to September team phase play rather than the standard home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.