Davis Cup will resume a valued custom subsequent yr.
The 2025 Davis Cup format will return to the standard home-and-away ties within the September stage shifting away from the present four-group stage occasions, the Worldwide Tennis Federation introduced right this moment.
Beginning subsequent September, seven home-or-away ties shall be staged over two days. The seven profitable groups from these ties will be part of the host nation within the Davis Cup Ultimate 8 set for November of 2025.
As well as, the Billie Jean King Cup Finals will rework from a 12-team occasion to an eight-team occasion beginning subsequent yr in an effort to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.
“At this time’s information is one other optimistic step ahead for each the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge and the Davis Cup, and I’m excited for the way forward for each competitions,” ITF President David Haggerty stated. “The format amendments intention to construct on the success we’ve got seen throughout each occasions in recent times and contributes in the direction of our long-term ambition to deliver them extra in sync underneath the World Cup of Tennis banner.
“In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Ultimate 8 format, which has confirmed to be so successful. Shifting the Davis Cup September stage from six-day group stage occasions, to 2 day house or away ties will ease gamers’ schedules instantly following the US Open, whereas sustaining the depth of the competitors that all of them love.”
Davis Cup modified its format in 2019, making the finals a bunch affair with a number metropolis, eliminating best-of-five matches, and making ties best-of-three units with doubles as a decider.
That 2019 plan spearheaded by ITF president David Haggerty and funding group Kosmos, led by former FC Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, reformed Davis Cup culminating with week-long Davis Cup finale every November. In January of 2023, the ITF terminated its 25-year pact with the Pique-led Kosmos, which was presupposed to pump cash into Davis Cup and tennis internationally.
These adjustments, notably going to September group stage play relatively than the standard home-and-away ties incensed some critics, together with Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.
