.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA crew celebrate Road to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase suit in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to resume a valued tradition next year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style are going to go back to the typical home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating off of the existing four-group phase activities, the International Ping pong Alliance introduced today.
Starting next September, seven home-or-away connections will certainly be actually organized over two days. The 7 gaining staffs from those ties will join the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will definitely improve coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity beginning following year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is actually one more positive step forward for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout changes strive to improve the results our experts have actually found around both events in recent times and also provides in the direction of our lasting passion to deliver them a lot more in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has actually shown to become such an excellence. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day group phase events, to 2 time home or even away connections are going to ease gamers' schedules promptly adhering to the US Open, while preserving the strength of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Cup modified its own style in 2019, creating the finals a team function along with a host city, doing away with best-of-five matches, and also making ties best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan headed through ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as assets team Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to pump cash into Davis Mug as well as ping pong worldwide.
Those modifications, significantly going to September team stage play instead of the typical home-and-away connections incensed some critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.