.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA crew commemorate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage suit between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly resume a valued tradition upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will come back to the typical home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating out of the present four-group stage activities, the International Tennis Alliance introduced today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away connections will definitely be actually staged over pair of times. The seven gaining crews coming from those connections will certainly participate in the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to change from a 12-team event to an eight-team activity beginning next year in an initiative to straighten Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's headlines is yet another positive step forward for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout modifications aim to improve the excellence we have actually seen all over each celebrations in the last few years as well as provides towards our long-term ambition to deliver all of them extra in sync under the World Mug of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has confirmed to be such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage from six-day group phase occasions, to pair of day home or away associations will certainly soothe gamers' timetables promptly adhering to the United States Open, while preserving the intensity of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Mug changed its format in 2019, creating the finals a group gathering along with a multitude urban area, dealing with best-of-five suits, and also making connections best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program headed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and financial investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to push amount of money in to Davis Cup and also tennis globally.
Those adjustments, significantly going to September team stage play rather than the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.