.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States staff celebrate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Phase suit between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely return to a valued custom next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will definitely return to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating away from the current four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation introduced today.
Starting following September, 7 home-or-away associations are going to be actually staged over pair of times. The 7 winning groups from those connections are going to sign up with the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly completely transform coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team occasion starting next year in an effort to align Davis Cup and also Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's headlines is yet another beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The layout modifications strive to build on the excellence we have actually seen throughout each occasions recently and also provides in the direction of our long-term ambition to deliver all of them much more in sync under the World Mug of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals straightens with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has actually proven to become such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase from six-day group stage activities, to two time home or even away associations are going to relieve players' timetables promptly adhering to the US Open, while preserving the magnitude of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Mug changed its own format in 2019, creating the finals a group affair with a multitude metropolitan area, dealing with best-of-five suits, as well as creating ties best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy led through ITF president David Haggerty and financial investment group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump cash in to Davis Mug and tennis worldwide.
Those changes, notably mosting likely to September group stage play instead of the conventional home-and-away ties incensed some doubters, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.