.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA crew celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage suit between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely return to a valued heritage following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will certainly return to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September stage moving away from the current four-group phase events, the International Ping pong Alliance declared today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away connections will be actually organized over pair of days. The seven winning crews coming from those associations will definitely participate in the host nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely enhance from a 12-team activity to an eight-team celebration beginning upcoming year in an initiative to align Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's headlines is actually one more positive advance for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and I am excited for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The style modifications aim to build on the results our experts have actually seen around each occasions lately as well as adds in the direction of our long-term ambition to deliver them much more in sync under the World Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has proven to be such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team phase celebrations, to two day home or away connections will certainly alleviate gamers' timetables promptly following the United States Open, while sustaining the strength of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Mug changed its own format in 2019, creating the finals a team affair along with a bunch area, doing away with best-of-five matches, and also creating connections best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning directed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and financial investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push loan in to Davis Cup and also ping pong around the globe.
Those improvements, notably visiting September group stage play as opposed to the typical home-and-away connections incensed some movie critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.