.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA team celebrate Road to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage suit in between Germany and also the USA at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued custom next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format are going to come back to the standard home-and-away incorporate the September stage moving far from the current four-group phase celebrations, the International Ping pong Federation announced today.
Starting next September, 7 home-or-away associations will definitely be actually staged over two times. The seven winning groups coming from those associations are going to participate in the host nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 placed for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals are going to improve coming from a 12-team event to an eight-team event beginning following year in an attempt to line up Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's headlines is actually one more beneficial progression for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and also I am excited for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The layout amendments aim to build on the results our company have actually viewed all over each activities over the last few years and also provides towards our long-term aspiration to deliver them much more in sync under the World Mug of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has verified to become such a success. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase coming from six-day group stage celebrations, to pair of day home or even away connections are going to relieve players' routines right away complying with the United States Open, while maintaining the strength of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Cup altered its format in 2019, creating the finals a group gathering with a host area, eliminating best-of-five matches, and creating ties best-of-three collections along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning directed by ITF head of state David Haggerty as well as investment team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup winding up with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year contract with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was meant to pump cash right into Davis Mug and also ping pong globally.
Those improvements, especially heading to September group stage play as opposed to the traditional home-and-away ties incensed some movie critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.