.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA staff celebrate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage suit 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 Mug will certainly resume a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will definitely go back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating out of the existing four-group phase occasions, the International Tennis Alliance declared today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away ties will be organized over 2 times. The seven succeeding groups coming from those ties will definitely join the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will change from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team celebration beginning following year in an attempt to line up Davis Cup and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's news is another favorable progression for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty said. "The layout changes aim to build on the success our experts have found across both celebrations in recent years and also adds towards our lasting ambition to carry them even more in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has actually confirmed to be such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group phase events, to pair of day home or away associations will certainly reduce gamers' schedules immediately adhering to the US Open, while preserving the intensity of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Mug transformed its own format in 2019, making the finals a team affair along with a bunch metropolitan area, eliminating best-of-five suits, as well as making connections best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty and expenditure group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to push money in to Davis Mug as well as tennis worldwide.
Those modifications, notably going to September group phase play instead of the conventional home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.