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ITF Reveals 2025 Davis Mug Layout Adjustment

.( L-R) Rajeev Ram, Austin Krajicek, Brandon Nakashima, Reilly Opelka, Mackenzie Mcdonald as well as Bob Bryan of the USA staff celebrate Roadway to Malaga in the last the 2024 Davis Cup Finals Group Stage match between Germany and also the United States at Hengqin International Ping Pong Center on September 14, 2024 in Zhuhai, China. Image by Zhe Ji/Getty Images for ITF.
Davis Mug will resume a valued practice following year.
The 2025 Davis Cup style will definitely go back to the traditional home-and-away incorporate the September phase relocating off of the present four-group stage activities, the International Tennis Federation announced today.
Beginning next September, 7 home-or-away associations will be organized over two times. The seven winning staffs from those connections will certainly sign up with the hold country in the Davis Mug Final 8 set for Nov of 2025.
Furthermore, the Billie Jean Master Cup Finals will transform from a 12-team event to an eight-team celebration starting next year in an initiative to line up Davis Cup as well as Billie Jean King Cup.
" Today's updates is an additional good breakthrough for both the Billie Jean Master Mug through Gainbridge and the Davis Mug, and I am thrilled for the future of both competitors," ITF President David Haggerty pointed out. "The layout amendments target to build on the success our team have actually found across both celebrations in recent times as well as provides in the direction of our long-lasting passion to carry them a lot more in sync under the Planet Cup of Ping pong streamer.
" In Billie Jean King Cup, the relocate to an eight-team Finals straightens along with the Davis Mug Final 8 layout, which has verified to be such a success. Relocating the Davis Mug September phase coming from six-day group stage occasions, to 2 time home or away associations will definitely soothe gamers' schedules immediately observing the US Open, while keeping the strength of the competitors that they all like.".
Davis Mug altered its own style in 2019, creating the finals a team affair along with a host metropolitan area, dealing with best-of-five matches, and also creating connections best-of-three sets along with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 strategy pioneered through ITF head of state David Haggerty and financial investment team Kosmos, led through previous FC Barcelona soccer superstar Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Mug finishing with week-long Davis Cup finale each November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its own 25-year treaty with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was intended to pump loan right into Davis Mug and ping pong internationally.
Those changes, significantly going to September group stage play as opposed to the traditional home-and-away associations incensed some doubters, featuring Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe as well as Stan Wawrinka.