.( 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 Cup Finals Group Stage suit between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely resume a valued practice upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style are going to go back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating far from the existing four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Alliance revealed today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away connections will be presented over 2 times. The 7 succeeding teams coming from those connections will certainly participate in the host nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will definitely change from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team event beginning upcoming year in an initiative to align Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's information is another favorable progression for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, and also I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The style amendments intend to build on the excellence our experts have actually found all over both events in the last few years and provides towards our long-lasting ambition to carry them even more in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has shown to be such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day team stage celebrations, to two day home or away associations are going to alleviate gamers' schedules instantly following the US Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Cup modified its own style in 2019, creating the finals a team gathering along with a lot area, getting rid of best-of-five matches, as well as making connections best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy spearheaded through ITF president David Haggerty and also financial investment team Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to pump amount of money in to Davis Cup and tennis globally.
Those adjustments, significantly mosting likely to September group stage play rather than the typical home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.