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ITF Introduces 2025 Davis Mug Layout Improvement

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States group commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Phase suit between Germany as well as the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will resume a valued heritage following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup format are going to come back to the typical home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating off of the present four-group stage occasions, the International Ping pong Alliance introduced today.
Starting upcoming September, 7 home-or-away connections will be actually organized over 2 days. The seven succeeding staffs from those connections are going to sign up with the hold country in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals are going to transform from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team activity beginning next year in an effort to line up Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's news is actually one more favorable step forward for both the Billie Jean King Cup through Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and I am actually delighted for the future of both competitions," ITF President David Haggerty stated. "The layout amendments aim to build on the excellence our experts have actually seen all over each events over the last few years as well as provides in the direction of our lasting aspiration to carry all of them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has verified to become such an effectiveness. Relocating the Davis Cup September phase from six-day group phase events, to two day home or even away connections will relieve players' timetables immediately following the US Open, while maintaining the intensity of the competition that they all like.".
Davis Mug changed its own layout in 2019, making the finals a team affair along with a lot area, removing best-of-five suits, and also making ties best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy pioneered through ITF president David Haggerty and also assets team Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona soccer celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF ended its 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to pump funds right into Davis Cup and tennis globally.
Those adjustments, particularly heading to September team phase play instead of the traditional home-and-away ties incensed some critics, featuring Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.