.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States team commemorate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match in between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will resume a valued tradition upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will certainly return to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving out of the present four-group phase occasions, the International Tennis Federation announced today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away associations will definitely be presented over pair of days. The 7 gaining staffs from those connections will definitely sign up with the host nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will enhance coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team celebration starting following year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's updates is another beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The layout amendments strive to build on the results our experts have seen across each celebrations in recent years and also provides in the direction of our long-term passion to carry all of them even more in sync under the World Mug of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has shown to become such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day group phase activities, to 2 time home or even away associations will certainly reduce players' timetables promptly following the US Open, while keeping the intensity of the competitors that they all enjoy.".
Davis Mug modified its format in 2019, creating the finals a team occasion with a multitude area, removing best-of-five suits, and also creating ties best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan led by ITF head of state David Haggerty and also assets group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup finishing along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to push money in to Davis Mug as well as tennis around the globe.
Those modifications, especially visiting September group phase play rather than the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.