.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Team Stage suit in between Germany as well as the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will certainly return to a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will certainly return to the conventional home-and-away ties in the September phase moving out of the present four-group phase activities, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away associations are going to be actually staged over pair of times. The 7 gaining staffs from those associations will sign up with the host country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will definitely completely transform coming from a 12-team activity to an eight-team event starting following year in an initiative to straighten Davis Mug and also Billie Jean Master Cup.
" Today's updates is actually another good step forward for both the Billie Jean King Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The style modifications aim to build on the effectiveness our company have actually viewed across both occasions in recent years as well as adds towards our lasting ambition to bring all of them extra in sync under the World Mug of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually shown to become such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team stage occasions, to 2 day home or even away connections are going to relieve players' timetables quickly following the US Open, while keeping the intensity of the competition that they all love.".
Davis Mug transformed its own style in 2019, creating the finals a team function along with a multitude urban area, doing away with best-of-five matches, and making associations best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 program spearheaded through ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as assets team Kosmos, led through former FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug culminating along with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year pact along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to pump money in to Davis Mug and also ping pong globally.
Those improvements, particularly heading to September group stage play rather than the typical home-and-away associations incensed some movie critics, consisting of Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.