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ITF Announces 2025 Davis Mug Format Improvement

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA group commemorate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Phase suit between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Picture by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will resume a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style will definitely return to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving off of the present four-group phase celebrations, the International Tennis Federation declared today.
Beginning upcoming September, 7 home-or-away associations are going to be actually presented over two times. The 7 winning groups coming from those connections will certainly sign up with the range nation in the Davis Cup Final 8 established for Nov of 2025.
Moreover, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely change from a 12-team activity to an eight-team activity starting upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is yet another beneficial breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and I am delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The style modifications strive to build on the excellence our experts have seen all over both occasions in the last few years and provides in the direction of our lasting ambition to bring them even more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals lines up along with the Davis Cup Final 8 style, which has proven to become such an excellence. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day group phase activities, to pair of day home or away connections will soothe gamers' schedules promptly complying with the US Open, while maintaining the magnitude of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Cup changed its own format in 2019, making the finals a team affair along with a bunch metropolitan area, getting rid of best-of-five matches, as well as creating ties best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning led by ITF president David Haggerty and investment group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Mug finishing with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to pump money into Davis Mug as well as tennis around the globe.
Those changes, notably mosting likely to September team phase play instead of the conventional home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, including Australian leader Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.