.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States staff celebrate Street to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase match in between Germany and also the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to resume a valued custom next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will certainly return to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating away from the existing four-group phase events, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away connections are going to be organized over two times. The 7 winning staffs coming from those ties are going to sign up with the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to improve coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team celebration beginning following year in an effort to straighten Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's headlines is one more good breakthrough for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The style modifications intend to improve the effectiveness we have observed around each activities lately and also adds in the direction of our long-lasting passion to deliver all of them much more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually verified to become such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage activities, to 2 time home or away associations will definitely relieve players' timetables promptly following the United States Open, while maintaining the strength of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug altered its style in 2019, creating the finals a group gathering with a lot city, doing away with best-of-five matches, and creating ties best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan pioneered through ITF president David Haggerty and investment team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump amount of money right into Davis Mug and also ping pong globally.
Those modifications, especially going to September team stage play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.