ITF Announces 2025 Davis Cup Format Change

Davis Cup will resume a valued custom subsequent 12 months.

The 2025 Davis Cup format will return to the normal home-and-away ties within the September stage shifting away from the present four-group stage occasions, the International Tennis Federation announced today.

Beginning subsequent September, seven home-or-away ties will probably be staged over two days. The seven profitable groups from these ties will be part of the host nation within the Davis Cup Remaining 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 12 months in an effort to align Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup.

“As we speak’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 have now seen throughout each occasions lately and contributes in the direction of our long-term ambition to carry them extra in sync beneath the World Cup of Tennis banner.

“In Billie Jean King Cup, the transfer to an eight-team Finals aligns with the Davis Cup Remaining 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 gaggle affair with a bunch 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 imagined to pump cash into Davis Cup and tennis internationally.

These adjustments, notably going to September group stage play fairly than the normal home-and-away ties incensed some critics, together with Australian captain Lleyton Hewitt, John McEnroe and Stan Wawrinka.