.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely resume a valued practice following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will definitely return to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase moving out of the current four-group phase activities, the International Tennis Federation announced today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away associations will be actually staged over two times. The seven succeeding groups from those connections will join the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will improve from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration starting upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's updates is one more positive advance for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and also I am thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout amendments target to improve the results our experts have viewed around each occasions recently and also provides towards our long-term aspiration to carry all of them extra in sync under the Planet Mug of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has actually verified to be such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day group phase activities, to two day home or even away associations will definitely reduce gamers' routines right away observing the US Open, while maintaining the strength of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup changed its own style in 2019, making the finals a team occasion with a multitude city, getting rid of best-of-five matches, and creating ties best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning headed through ITF president David Haggerty and investment team Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to push cash right into Davis Mug and tennis worldwide.
Those changes, particularly mosting likely to September team stage play as opposed to the standard home-and-away ties incensed some doubters, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.