.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA team commemorate Road to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase match between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued tradition following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will certainly go back to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating off of the existing four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Alliance revealed today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away ties are going to be actually presented over two days. The seven gaining crews from those connections are going to join the range country in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for November of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely completely transform coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team celebration beginning upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's information is actually one more beneficial step forward for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and also the Davis Mug, and I am actually excited for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty said. "The format modifications intend to improve the results our team have actually observed all over both occasions recently and also contributes in the direction of our long-lasting aspiration to deliver them extra in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Mug Final 8 format, which has shown to be such a results. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team phase activities, to pair of time home or away connections will definitely relieve gamers' routines immediately complying with the US Open, while preserving the intensity of the competitors that they all adore.".
Davis Mug changed its style in 2019, making the finals a team function along with a bunch area, eliminating best-of-five matches, as well as making associations best-of-three sets along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 planning spearheaded through ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as financial investment group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug culminating with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push loan right into Davis Cup and also ping pong internationally.
Those improvements, particularly heading to September group stage play instead of the standard home-and-away associations incensed some critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.