.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase suit in 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 Cup will definitely return to a valued practice following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format are going to go back to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating out of the existing four-group phase occasions, the International Tennis Federation announced today.
Beginning next September, seven home-or-away associations are going to be presented over pair of times. The 7 gaining groups coming from those ties will sign up with the host country in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to transform coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team celebration starting following year in an attempt to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's updates is yet another beneficial advance for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty said. "The layout amendments target to improve the success our company have seen all over each occasions in recent years and adds in the direction of our long-term ambition to carry them even more in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has verified to become such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team phase occasions, to pair of day home or even away ties will definitely reduce gamers' timetables quickly following the United States Open, while preserving the strength of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Cup altered its style in 2019, making the finals a team function with a host city, getting rid of best-of-five suits, as well as creating connections best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning pioneered by ITF head of state David Haggerty and also assets group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to push amount of money in to Davis Mug as well as tennis around the globe.
Those modifications, significantly heading to September group stage play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.