.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States staff commemorate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage suit in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug are going to resume a valued heritage following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will go back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving off of the current four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Starting upcoming September, seven home-or-away associations are going to be actually presented over 2 times. The 7 winning crews coming from those connections will certainly join the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will definitely enhance coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team event starting next year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup and also Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is actually one more positive breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, as well as I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty mentioned. "The style amendments intend to build on the results we have actually found all over both activities recently and contributes towards our long-term aspiration to bring them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually shown to become such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase from six-day team phase occasions, to two day home or even away associations will certainly relieve gamers' schedules instantly adhering to the United States Open, while preserving the magnitude of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Mug altered its own format in 2019, creating the finals a team affair along with a bunch area, getting rid of best-of-five suits, as well as creating connections best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan initiated through ITF president David Haggerty and also investment group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to pump loan in to Davis Mug and tennis around the globe.
Those adjustments, particularly heading to September group stage play as opposed to the standard home-and-away associations incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.