.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase suit between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued practice following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will return to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving off of the present four-group stage events, the International Tennis Alliance announced today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away connections will definitely be presented over 2 days. The 7 succeeding teams coming from those associations will sign up with the range nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will change coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity beginning next year in an attempt to straighten Davis Mug and Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's information is actually yet another positive breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, and I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The layout amendments target to build on the results we have actually seen throughout both occasions recently and also contributes in the direction of our long-lasting ambition to take them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has shown to be such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Cup September phase from six-day group phase occasions, to 2 day home or even away associations are going to relieve gamers' routines quickly adhering to the United States Open, while keeping the intensity of the competition that they all enjoy.".
Davis Mug altered its own style in 2019, making the finals a group occasion with a bunch area, removing best-of-five matches, and making ties best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan pioneered by ITF president David Haggerty and also investment team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup finishing with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push funds in to Davis Cup and also tennis internationally.
Those modifications, particularly going to September group phase play rather than the traditional home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.