.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage suit between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will go back to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating away from the current four-group phase activities, the International Ping pong Alliance declared today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away ties will definitely be organized over pair of times. The 7 gaining staffs from those associations will certainly sign up with the hold nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will improve from a 12-team event to an eight-team celebration starting following year in an initiative to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is another beneficial step forward for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and also I am excited for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The format changes strive to build on the excellence our experts have actually viewed across each celebrations in recent years and also contributes towards our long-term passion to bring them even more in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has shown to become such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase from six-day group stage occasions, to 2 day home or even away ties will certainly soothe gamers' schedules immediately adhering to the United States Open, while sustaining the strength of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Mug altered its own layout in 2019, making the finals a team affair along with a lot urban area, dealing with best-of-five matches, as well as creating associations best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning led by ITF president David Haggerty and expenditure group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump money right into Davis Cup as well as ping pong globally.
Those changes, particularly visiting September team phase play instead of the traditional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.