.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA group commemorate Street to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely return to a valued custom next year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style are going to return to the typical home-and-away ties in the September stage moving far from the present four-group stage events, the International Ping pong Federation revealed today.
Beginning following September, seven home-or-away ties are going to be actually presented over two times. The seven succeeding groups from those ties are going to participate in the range country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will certainly improve coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion starting next year in an attempt to straighten Davis Mug and also Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's information is another beneficial step forward for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, as well as I am excited for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The style changes target to improve the success our team have found all over both celebrations in recent times as well as contributes in the direction of our long-term passion to take them much more in sync under the Globe Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually verified to become such a success. Moving the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day team phase events, to pair of day home or away associations will soothe gamers' schedules instantly following the United States Open, while keeping the magnitude of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug transformed its own style in 2019, creating the finals a team function with a lot metropolitan area, removing best-of-five suits, as well as making associations best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan headed through ITF head of state David Haggerty and expenditure group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug winding up with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to push money right into Davis Cup and also ping pong around the globe.
Those changes, notably mosting likely to September group stage play rather than the conventional home-and-away connections incensed some critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.