.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA group commemorate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase suit in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will resume a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will go back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase moving far from the existing four-group phase celebrations, the International Ping pong Alliance announced today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away ties are going to be organized over 2 times. The 7 winning teams coming from those ties will participate in the host country in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will transform coming from a 12-team event to an eight-team event beginning following year in an initiative to straighten Davis Cup and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's updates is actually yet another good advance for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty mentioned. "The style modifications strive to improve the results our experts have observed across both occasions lately as well as provides towards our long-term aspiration to deliver them extra in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually verified to be such a success. Moving the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day team stage events, to two time home or even away ties will alleviate players' schedules immediately adhering to the US Open, while keeping the magnitude of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Cup transformed its format in 2019, making the finals a team gathering along with a multitude city, dealing with best-of-five suits, and also creating associations best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy pioneered by ITF president David Haggerty as well as investment team Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to push loan in to Davis Mug as well as tennis around the globe.
Those improvements, particularly going to September group stage play rather than the typical home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.