.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA team celebrate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely resume a valued tradition upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will certainly return to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving out of the existing four-group stage events, the International Ping pong Alliance announced today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away ties will certainly be actually organized over 2 days. The seven winning teams from those connections will join the host country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will improve from a 12-team event to an eight-team event starting upcoming year in an initiative to align Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's news is yet another favorable step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, as well as I am excited for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout amendments intend to build on the excellence our experts have actually seen all over both activities lately as well as adds in the direction of our lasting aspiration to bring all of them much more in sync under the Globe Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually verified to be such a success. Moving the Davis Mug September phase from six-day group phase occasions, to two time home or even away associations will certainly relieve gamers' routines right away observing the United States Open, while preserving the magnitude of the competition that they all enjoy.".
Davis Mug modified its own style in 2019, creating the finals a group affair with a lot metropolitan area, dealing with best-of-five matches, as well as creating connections best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning initiated by ITF president David Haggerty and investment group Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to push funds right into Davis Cup and also ping pong worldwide.
Those adjustments, particularly going to September team phase play rather than the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.