.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA group commemorate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug format will come back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving off of the existing four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Alliance declared today.
Starting upcoming September, seven home-or-away ties will be actually presented over pair of times. The seven succeeding groups coming from those associations will definitely participate in the range nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals will certainly enhance from a 12-team event to an eight-team celebration beginning following year in an initiative to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's news is yet another beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and I am delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty stated. "The format changes target to build on the success our experts have viewed around each activities in the last few years and contributes in the direction of our lasting aspiration to deliver all of them extra in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has proven to become such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day group stage occasions, to two time home or away connections are going to soothe gamers' schedules right away following the US Open, while maintaining the strength of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Mug transformed its own style in 2019, creating the finals a group function along with a host city, dealing with best-of-five matches, and creating ties best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning directed through ITF president David Haggerty as well as investment team Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year deal along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to pump funds into Davis Mug as well as tennis internationally.
Those changes, notably heading to September group phase play instead of the traditional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.