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ITF Declares 2025 Davis Cup Style Improvement

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the United States crew commemorate Street to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Team Phase match between Germany and the USA at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photograph through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will return to a valued heritage next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will certainly go back to the traditional home-and-away ties in the September phase relocating away from the existing four-group phase activities, the International Tennis Alliance announced today.
Starting following September, seven home-or-away ties will certainly be organized over pair of days. The 7 succeeding staffs coming from those associations will definitely participate in the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 put for Nov of 2025.
In addition, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will definitely transform coming from a 12-team celebration to an eight-team event starting upcoming year in an attempt to align Davis Mug and Billie Jean King Mug.
" Today's news is one more good progression for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, as well as I am thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF Head of state David Haggerty pointed out. "The layout amendments target to improve the excellence our team have seen throughout each events over the last few years as well as adds towards our long-term ambition to take them much more in sync under the World Mug of Ping pong banner.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals lines up with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually confirmed to become such a results. Moving the Davis Cup September phase from six-day team phase celebrations, to two time home or away associations will reduce gamers' timetables right away complying with the United States Open, while maintaining the strength of the competitors that they all really love.".
Davis Cup transformed its format in 2019, making the finals a team function along with a host area, removing best-of-five matches, and also creating ties best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 planning led through ITF head of state David Haggerty and assets team Kosmos, led by past FC Barcelona football superstar Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup winding up along with week-long Davis Mug finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually supposed to pump loan in to Davis Cup and ping pong worldwide.
Those modifications, especially going to September group stage play instead of the typical home-and-away connections incensed some critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.