.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will resume a valued practice upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style are going to go back to the typical home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving out of the existing four-group phase activities, the International Tennis Alliance declared today.
Starting upcoming September, seven home-or-away associations will certainly be staged over 2 days. The 7 winning teams from those ties will definitely participate in the hold nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will definitely enhance from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity starting upcoming year in an effort to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is actually one more positive progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and also I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The format amendments aim to improve the effectiveness our company have found around each activities in recent times and also provides in the direction of our long-term ambition to deliver all of them much more in sync under the Globe Mug of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has actually verified to be such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage events, to 2 time home or even away ties will soothe gamers' schedules instantly observing the US Open, while preserving the magnitude of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Cup altered its style in 2019, creating the finals a group gathering along with a lot metropolitan area, removing best-of-five matches, as well as creating ties best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy directed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and also expenditure team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to pump loan in to Davis Cup and also tennis internationally.
Those changes, notably visiting September group stage play rather than the typical home-and-away connections incensed some critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.