.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA team celebrate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase match in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to resume a valued practice next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will return to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating far from the present four-group phase celebrations, the International Ping pong Federation introduced today.
Starting following September, seven home-or-away ties will definitely be actually presented over two days. The seven gaining teams coming from those ties will participate in the hold nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly change coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity starting upcoming year in an initiative to align Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's headlines is actually yet another beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout modifications intend to improve the success our team have seen all over both activities recently and also adds in the direction of our long-term aspiration to carry all of them a lot more in sync under the World Cup of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually shown to become such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team stage activities, to 2 day home or even away associations will certainly reduce gamers' schedules immediately adhering to the US Open, while keeping the intensity of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Cup changed its own style in 2019, making the finals a group affair along with a lot area, doing away with best-of-five matches, as well as creating associations best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy led through ITF head of state David Haggerty and financial investment team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump loan in to Davis Cup and tennis internationally.
Those changes, significantly mosting likely to September group stage play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.