.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States crew commemorate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly resume a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format are going to go back to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving away from the existing four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away associations will be actually staged over 2 days. The seven succeeding crews from those ties will certainly participate in the host nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will certainly change from a 12-team activity to an eight-team celebration starting following year in an initiative to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's information is actually yet another positive step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and also I am delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The style amendments strive to improve the success we have actually viewed across both occasions in the last few years and adds towards our long-lasting ambition to take all of them much more in sync under the Globe Cup of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has proven to be such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team phase events, to 2 day home or even away ties will definitely ease players' timetables quickly observing the United States Open, while keeping the intensity of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug changed its style in 2019, creating the finals a group gathering along with a bunch city, removing best-of-five suits, and creating associations best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy led by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as assets group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to push loan in to Davis Mug and ping pong around the globe.
Those improvements, particularly going to September team phase play instead of the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.