.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States group commemorate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly return to a valued practice following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout are going to return to the standard home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating away from the existing four-group stage celebrations, the International Ping pong Federation revealed today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away associations will definitely be actually presented over pair of times. The seven gaining groups coming from those ties will definitely join the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals are going to enhance coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team activity beginning following year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's information is actually an additional good progression for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The layout modifications target to improve the effectiveness our company have observed around both occasions recently as well as provides in the direction of our lasting ambition to take them extra in sync under the World Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually shown to be such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day group stage celebrations, to 2 day home or away ties are going to relieve players' schedules promptly complying with the United States Open, while sustaining the magnitude of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Cup modified its style in 2019, creating the finals a group gathering along with a lot area, getting rid of best-of-five matches, and making associations best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan headed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and investment group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually expected to pump amount of money right into Davis Cup as well as ping pong around the globe.
Those adjustments, significantly heading to September team phase play instead of the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.