.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA staff celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the final the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Stage match in between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will certainly return to a valued heritage upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will certainly come back to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving out of the existing four-group phase occasions, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away connections will certainly be actually organized over two days. The seven winning teams from those associations are going to sign up with the hold country in the Davis Cup Final 8 set for November of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to completely transform coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity beginning following year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and also Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's updates is yet another good progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The layout changes strive to build on the excellence our team have observed all over both occasions over the last few years and provides towards our lasting ambition to take them more in sync under the Planet Cup of Tennis streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Mug, the relocate to an eight-team Finals aligns along with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually verified to become such a results. Moving the Davis Mug September stage coming from six-day group phase events, to 2 day home or away ties will definitely reduce gamers' schedules promptly adhering to the US Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competition that they all adore.".
Davis Mug modified its own format in 2019, creating the finals a team function with a multitude area, getting rid of best-of-five suits, and also creating associations best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy headed by ITF president David Haggerty as well as assets team Kosmos, led by previous FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup finishing with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to pump amount of money right into Davis Cup and also tennis internationally.
Those modifications, significantly mosting likely to September group stage play as opposed to the conventional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.