.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the United States group celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup 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 by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely resume a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will come back to the typical home-and-away incorporate the September stage relocating out of the present four-group stage events, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Beginning upcoming September, seven home-or-away connections will be organized over two times. The 7 winning teams from those associations will definitely join the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to completely transform coming from a 12-team event to an eight-team activity starting next year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup and also Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is an additional favorable breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Mug by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, as well as I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The format amendments strive to build on the effectiveness our team have seen across both activities in the last few years as well as adds in the direction of our lasting passion to take all of them more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Mug, the move to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually confirmed to become such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September phase from six-day team phase occasions, to two day home or even away ties will definitely reduce players' routines promptly observing the US Open, while keeping the magnitude of the competitors that they all love.".
Davis Cup modified its own layout in 2019, making the finals a team function along with a lot urban area, removing best-of-five matches, as well as creating associations best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty and also assets group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug finishing with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its own 25-year deal with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was supposed to pump loan right into Davis Mug and ping pong worldwide.
Those adjustments, significantly heading to September group stage play rather than the standard home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.