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ITF Reveals 2025 Davis Cup Layout Improvement

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and also Bob Bryan of the USA group celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Fixate September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Photo through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup will definitely resume a valued heritage next year.
The 2025 Davis Cup layout will definitely come back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase moving out of the existing four-group phase activities, the International Tennis Alliance declared today.
Beginning following September, seven home-or-away associations will definitely be organized over 2 times. The 7 gaining groups from those associations are going to join the host country in the Davis Cup Final 8 placed for November of 2025.
Additionally, the Billie Jean Master Mug Finals will certainly enhance coming from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team event beginning following year in an initiative to straighten Davis Cup and also Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's information is actually an additional beneficial step forward for both the Billie Jean King Mug by Gainbridge as well as the Davis Cup, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitions," ITF Head of state David Haggerty claimed. "The style amendments aim to improve the success we have actually viewed all over each events in recent years and also contributes in the direction of our lasting aspiration to deliver all of them a lot more in sync under the Globe Mug of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Mug Final 8 style, which has actually verified to become such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage coming from six-day team stage events, to pair of day home or away ties will soothe players' schedules promptly adhering to the United States Open, while sustaining the magnitude of the competition that they all love.".
Davis Cup transformed its layout in 2019, making the finals a team gathering with a host city, eliminating best-of-five suits, and making ties best-of-three collections with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan directed through ITF president David Haggerty as well as expenditure team Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona football celebrity Gerard Pique, changed Davis Cup finishing along with week-long Davis Cup finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year treaty along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was actually meant to push amount of money right into Davis Mug and ping pong worldwide.
Those modifications, significantly heading to September team stage play rather than the traditional home-and-away associations incensed some critics, including Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.