.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States staff commemorate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage suit between Germany and also the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format are going to come back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating away from the current four-group stage events, the International Tennis Alliance revealed today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away associations will definitely be organized over two days. The seven succeeding staffs coming from those connections will certainly participate in the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals are going to improve from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity beginning next year in an initiative to align Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's headlines is actually one more positive progression for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, and also I am excited for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The format changes strive to improve the excellence our experts have actually found throughout both occasions in recent times and also contributes in the direction of our lasting aspiration to carry them more in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually proven to become such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day team phase occasions, to 2 day home or away connections will soothe gamers' timetables promptly observing the United States Open, while preserving the intensity of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Cup altered its format in 2019, creating the finals a team affair along with a host urban area, eliminating best-of-five matches, as well as creating connections best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning directed by ITF president David Haggerty as well as financial investment team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push loan in to Davis Mug and ping pong globally.
Those improvements, notably going to September group phase play rather than the standard home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.