.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States crew celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase suit in between Germany and 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 are going to resume a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will definitely come back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September stage moving out of the present four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away ties are going to be actually organized over pair of times. The 7 succeeding teams coming from those ties will join the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will certainly completely transform from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team celebration beginning following year in an attempt to straighten Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's headlines is actually an additional favorable breakthrough for both the Billie Jean King Mug by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and also I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty said. "The layout modifications target to improve the effectiveness our experts have actually viewed throughout each celebrations lately and also contributes in the direction of our long-lasting aspiration to carry all of them even more in sync under the World Cup of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has verified to be such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team phase events, to pair of time home or away connections will certainly relieve players' schedules promptly complying with the US Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competition that they all love.".
Davis Cup changed its own layout in 2019, making the finals a team gathering along with a multitude metropolitan area, getting rid of best-of-five matches, and creating ties best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program headed through ITF president David Haggerty and also assets team Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push amount of money right into Davis Mug as well as ping pong internationally.
Those modifications, notably mosting likely to September group phase play as opposed to the traditional home-and-away connections incensed some critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.