.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States crew celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage suit in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will resume a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will definitely go back to the typical home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving out of the present four-group phase occasions, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away connections will be presented over pair of days. The seven winning groups coming from those ties are going to sign up with the range nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to enhance from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team event starting following year in an initiative to straighten Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's headlines is actually another positive breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty stated. "The style amendments target to build on the effectiveness our team have found all over both activities over the last few years as well as adds in the direction of our long-lasting aspiration to bring all of them more in sync under the Globe Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has proven to become such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day group stage events, to pair of day home or away ties will certainly relieve players' timetables promptly complying with the United States Open, while keeping the strength of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug altered its own format in 2019, making the finals a group function along with a host city, removing best-of-five matches, as well as making ties best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan led through ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as assets group Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to pump loan in to Davis Mug and also tennis worldwide.
Those modifications, especially going to September team stage play rather than the typical home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.