Tennis

ITF Declares 2025 Davis Mug Style Modification

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA group celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase suit in between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly return to a valued custom following year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will go back to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating off of the current four-group stage activities, the International Ping pong Alliance introduced today.
Beginning following September, seven home-or-away associations will be staged over pair of times. The 7 winning teams from those connections will definitely join the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will definitely transform coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity beginning upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's headlines is yet another good advance for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and also the Davis Cup, and also I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty mentioned. "The layout modifications strive to build on the excellence we have actually seen throughout both celebrations in recent times and adds in the direction of our lasting ambition to take them much more in sync under the Globe Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has actually verified to become such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage occasions, to two day home or even away connections will certainly ease gamers' routines promptly adhering to the US Open, while preserving the intensity of the competition that they all enjoy.".
Davis Cup altered its own style in 2019, making the finals a group gathering with a lot metropolitan area, eliminating best-of-five matches, and making ties best-of-three collections along with functions as a decider.
That 2019 program directed through ITF president David Haggerty and expenditure group Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug finishing with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually intended to push loan into Davis Mug as well as tennis around the globe.
Those modifications, significantly heading to September group stage play rather than the standard home-and-away connections incensed some doubters, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.