.( 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 Mug Finals Group Stage match between Germany and the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely resume a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format are going to come back to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September phase moving far from the current four-group stage occasions, the International Ping pong Alliance announced today.
Starting next September, seven home-or-away connections will definitely be actually presented over two days. The 7 winning staffs coming from those associations will certainly participate in the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals are going to change coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team celebration beginning upcoming year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's news is one more favorable breakthrough for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, and also I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty stated. "The format modifications aim to build on the results our team have observed all over both occasions over the last few years and provides towards our long-lasting passion to deliver them much more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has shown to be such a results. Moving the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day team phase occasions, to two time home or even away ties will relieve players' schedules right away observing the United States Open, while sustaining the intensity of the competitors that they all like.".
Davis Mug modified its layout in 2019, creating the finals a team gathering with a host metropolitan area, dealing with best-of-five suits, as well as making associations best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning spearheaded by ITF president David Haggerty and also expenditure team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing 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 supposed to pump amount of money in to Davis Mug and tennis worldwide.
Those changes, particularly heading to September group stage play rather than the standard home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.