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ITF Announces 2025 Davis Mug Style Change

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald and Bob Bryan of the USA crew commemorate Roadway to Malaga in the ultimate the 2024 Davis Mug Finals Group Stage match between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Tennis Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image through Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Cup are going to return to a valued custom upcoming year.
The 2025 Davis Mug style are going to return to the typical home-and-away ties in the September stage relocating off of the existing four-group phase celebrations, the International Ping pong Federation introduced today.
Beginning following September, seven home-or-away ties will be actually staged over two days. The 7 succeeding groups from those connections will definitely sign up with the hold nation in the Davis Mug Final 8 set for November of 2025.
On top of that, the Billie Jean King Mug Finals are going to improve from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team occasion beginning next year in an attempt to line up Davis Mug as well as Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's news is an additional positive breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Cup through Gainbridge as well as the Davis Mug, and I am actually delighted for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty mentioned. "The format amendments target to build on the results we have seen throughout both celebrations recently and also provides towards our lasting passion to deliver them more in sync under the Planet Mug of Tennis ensign.
" In Billie Jean Master Cup, the move to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Final 8 format, which has actually verified to become such a success. Moving the Davis Cup September stage from six-day team phase events, to 2 day home or away connections will definitely alleviate players' schedules promptly observing the US Open, while sustaining the strength of the competition that they all really love.".
Davis Mug changed its own style in 2019, creating the finals a team gathering with a bunch urban area, removing best-of-five matches, and also making connections best-of-three sets with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy initiated through ITF president David Haggerty and also financial investment group Kosmos, led through past FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup culminating along with week-long Davis Mug finale each Nov. In January of 2023, the ITF cancelled its 25-year contract along with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was expected to push cash in to Davis Mug and also tennis globally.
Those changes, especially heading to September group phase play rather than the traditional home-and-away connections incensed some critics, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and also Stan Wawrinka.