.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States crew commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage match between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely return to a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format are going to go back to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving out of the current four-group stage celebrations, the International Ping pong Federation revealed today.
Beginning following September, 7 home-or-away ties will be presented over 2 days. The 7 succeeding groups coming from those ties will certainly participate in the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will definitely enhance from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration beginning following year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is one more good progression for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and also I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty said. "The layout modifications intend to improve the effectiveness our experts have actually seen throughout both occasions in recent times and contributes in the direction of our long-lasting passion to carry them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has proven to become such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day group stage celebrations, to pair of day home or even away associations are going to reduce players' schedules immediately complying with the United States Open, while sustaining the intensity of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Cup changed its style in 2019, making the finals a group affair with a bunch urban area, eliminating best-of-five matches, as well as creating ties best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program directed by ITF president David Haggerty as well as expenditure team Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug finishing with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump funds in to Davis Mug and ping pong around the globe.
Those adjustments, significantly mosting likely to September group stage play rather than the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.