.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase suit in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly return to a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will definitely go back to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving far from the current four-group phase events, the International Tennis Alliance declared today.
Beginning next September, seven home-or-away connections will definitely be actually presented over 2 times. The 7 gaining teams coming from those associations will participate in the range nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will enhance from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team event starting next year in an attempt to align Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's headlines is an additional good step forward for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am actually excited for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty said. "The format modifications strive to improve the results we have found around both occasions in recent years as well as provides in the direction of our lasting ambition to carry all of them a lot more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has verified to be such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day group phase activities, to pair of time home or even away ties are going to relieve gamers' timetables right away complying with the United States Open, while keeping the magnitude of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Cup transformed its own format in 2019, making the finals a group function with a host urban area, doing away with best-of-five matches, as well as creating associations best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan spearheaded by ITF president David Haggerty and expenditure group Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to pump cash right into Davis Mug and also tennis globally.
Those modifications, particularly mosting likely to September team phase play instead of the standard home-and-away associations incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.