.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA group commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase suit in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued heritage following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will definitely come back to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September phase moving off of the present four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation announced today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away associations are going to be actually organized over pair of days. The seven succeeding groups coming from those connections will certainly join the host nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will definitely enhance coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team event beginning following year in an effort to line up Davis Mug and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is actually one more positive advance for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and I am excited for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The style amendments intend to improve the excellence we have actually found all over both occasions in the last few years and provides in the direction of our long-term aspiration to bring all of them much more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually confirmed to be such a results. Moving the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day team phase events, to two time home or away connections will definitely reduce players' timetables right away adhering to the United States Open, while keeping the intensity of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Cup transformed its own format in 2019, making the finals a team function along with a multitude urban area, removing best-of-five suits, and making connections best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty and assets team Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to push funds in to Davis Mug and also ping pong globally.
Those adjustments, significantly heading to September group phase play instead of the conventional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.