.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA team commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely return to a valued custom next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will certainly return to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating off of the current four-group phase occasions, the International Ping pong Alliance announced today.
Beginning following September, 7 home-or-away connections will be presented over pair of times. The seven succeeding staffs coming from those ties will sign up with the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will certainly change coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity starting upcoming year in an attempt to straighten Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's updates is actually one more positive breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The format amendments strive to build on the results our company have actually observed across each events in recent years and also adds towards our long-lasting ambition to carry all of them much more in sync under the Globe Mug of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has confirmed to be such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage from six-day team stage activities, to pair of time home or away ties will certainly ease players' routines quickly observing the United States Open, while maintaining the strength of the competition that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup transformed its own format in 2019, creating the finals a group occasion along with a bunch metropolitan area, removing best-of-five suits, and also creating ties best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program initiated through ITF head of state David Haggerty and also investment group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug finishing along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump money into Davis Mug and also ping pong globally.
Those adjustments, particularly heading to September team phase play rather than the standard home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.