Tennis

ITF Announces 2025 Davis Mug Style Improvement

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA crew commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match in between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly resume a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will certainly come back to the standard home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating away from the current four-group stage celebrations, the International Tennis Federation revealed today.
Beginning next September, seven home-or-away ties are going to be presented over two days. The seven gaining crews from those associations will join the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely transform from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team occasion beginning following year in an effort to line up Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's updates is actually another positive step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The layout modifications aim to build on the success we have found around each occasions recently and contributes in the direction of our long-term aspiration to bring them more in sync under the Planet Mug of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has actually verified to become such an excellence. Moving the Davis Mug September phase from six-day group phase events, to 2 day home or away associations will certainly reduce gamers' schedules quickly adhering to the US Open, while preserving the magnitude of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug changed its own style in 2019, making the finals a group occasion with a host urban area, eliminating best-of-five matches, as well as making associations best-of-three sets with functions as a decider.
That 2019 strategy spearheaded by ITF head of state David Haggerty and also financial investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to push funds into Davis Mug and also ping pong around the globe.
Those improvements, particularly heading to September group stage play rather than the traditional home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.