.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage match in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to resume a valued custom following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout are going to go back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase moving far from the existing four-group stage occasions, the International Ping pong Alliance introduced today.
Beginning following September, 7 home-or-away ties are going to be actually presented over two days. The 7 gaining staffs from those associations will certainly participate in the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to completely transform from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration starting upcoming year in an effort to straighten Davis Cup and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is one more positive advance for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout amendments aim to improve the effectiveness our company have actually seen across both activities lately and adds in the direction of our long-term aspiration to take all of them a lot more in sync under the World Cup of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually shown to be such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day team stage events, to pair of day home or even away ties will reduce gamers' timetables quickly adhering to the US Open, while preserving the intensity of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Mug changed its style in 2019, creating the finals a group occasion along with a lot urban area, removing best-of-five suits, as well as making connections best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning spearheaded by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as assets group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to push funds right into Davis Cup and also ping pong globally.
Those changes, especially visiting September group stage play rather than the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.