.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA team celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase suit in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will definitely resume a valued practice upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug layout will definitely return to the conventional home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating out of the present four-group phase celebrations, the International Ping pong Alliance introduced today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away ties will certainly be presented over 2 times. The seven winning groups from those connections will definitely join the hold country in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly completely transform coming from a 12-team event to an eight-team event starting next year in an attempt to line up Davis Mug and Billie Jean Master Mug.
" Today's updates is actually an additional good step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, and also I am actually excited for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty stated. "The style amendments aim to improve the effectiveness our experts have found throughout both celebrations in recent times and also provides towards our lasting passion to bring them extra in sync under the World Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has proven to be such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Cup September phase from six-day group stage occasions, to pair of time home or even away associations are going to reduce players' routines promptly observing the US Open, while keeping the magnitude of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Mug transformed its format in 2019, creating the finals a team affair with a multitude urban area, removing best-of-five suits, and also creating associations best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy directed through ITF president David Haggerty as well as expenditure group Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to pump cash right into Davis Cup as well as tennis worldwide.
Those improvements, particularly going to September group stage play rather than the traditional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.