.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the United States crew celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued tradition next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will definitely go back to the typical home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving far from the present four-group stage events, the International Ping pong Alliance announced today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away associations will definitely be actually organized over 2 times. The seven succeeding crews from those associations are going to participate in the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will enhance from a 12-team activity to an eight-team occasion starting upcoming year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's information is yet another positive breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and also I am excited for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty claimed. "The layout modifications intend to build on the effectiveness our team have actually seen all over each events lately and provides in the direction of our long-term ambition to deliver all of them much more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 layout, which has verified to become such an effectiveness. Moving the Davis Mug September stage from six-day team stage activities, to pair of time home or away associations will certainly relieve players' routines promptly complying with the United States Open, while preserving the intensity of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Cup changed its layout in 2019, creating the finals a team function along with a multitude city, dealing with best-of-five matches, and making associations best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 plan spearheaded through ITF president David Haggerty as well as investment team Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to push funds right into Davis Cup and also ping pong worldwide.
Those adjustments, notably heading to September group phase play instead of the standard home-and-away connections incensed some movie critics, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.