.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States team celebrate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match in between Germany and also the United States 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 custom following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will go back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving off of the present four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Alliance announced today.
Beginning following September, 7 home-or-away ties will be actually organized over pair of days. The seven succeeding teams coming from those connections will definitely participate in the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely change from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team event starting next year in an attempt to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's updates is an additional positive step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The style changes strive to improve the results we have seen all over both celebrations in recent times as well as adds in the direction of our long-lasting ambition to deliver them more in sync under the World Mug of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has verified to become such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day group stage events, to pair of time home or even away ties will certainly alleviate gamers' timetables promptly adhering to the US Open, while sustaining the intensity of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Mug transformed its own layout in 2019, creating the finals a team function along with a multitude metropolitan area, doing away with best-of-five suits, as well as creating associations best-of-three collections with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning pioneered by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as investment group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push loan into Davis Cup as well as ping pong around the globe.
Those adjustments, especially heading to September group stage play as opposed to the standard home-and-away associations incensed some critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.