Draw Announced For 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers

Davis Cup (photo: Brigitte Urban)

ITF Press Release, December 2, 2024

The draw for the 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers was conducted at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) offices in London today.

The 2025 Davis Cup Qualifiers 1st round will feature 26 teams competing in 13 ties on either Friday 31 January-Saturday 1 February or Saturday 1-Sunday 2 February. Home nations have choice of dates. Each Qualifier tie consists of two singles matches on day one, and a doubles match followed by two singles matches on day two.

The 13 winning nations will advance to the Qualifiers 2nd round in September, joining 2024 runners-up Netherlands. The seven winning nations in the Qualifiers 2nd round will compete at the Final 8 in November, alongside 2024 world champions and Final 8 host nation Italy. More details on the amended Davis Cup format, which the ITF announced in September, are available on the Davis Cup website.

The 2025 Davis Cup World Group I Play-offs and World Group II Play-offs will also be contested on the same weekend as the Qualifiers 1st round. A total of 78 nations will compete in 39 home-or-away ties around the world at the start of the 2025 Davis Cup season.

The full 2025 Qualifiers 1st round draw is below. The winning nations in each pair of ties will meet in the Qualifiers 2nd round in September.

Netherlands (1) v BYE
Norway (c)* v Argentina (14)

Sweden (c) v Australia (2)
Belgium (13) (c)* v Chile

Canada (3) (c)* v Hungary
Austria (c) v Finland (12)

Israel (c) v Germany (4)
Japan (c) v Great Britain (11)

Chinese Taipei (c)* v USA (5)
Czechia (10) (c)* v Korea, Rep.

Denmark (c) v Serbia (6)
Switzerland (c) v Spain (9)

Croatia (7) (c) v Slovakia
France (8) (c) v Brazil

(#) = seed; (c) = choice of ground; * = choice of ground decided by lot