Draws Announced for 2025 Davis Cup World Groups I and II Playoffs
October 7, 2024
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced the draws for the 2025 Davis Cup World Group I and World Group II Play-offs.
The draws, which took place at the ITF offices this afternoon, will see 52 nations competing in 26 home-and-away ties, to be played in cities around the world on either 31 January-1 February or 1-2 February 2025. The choice of dates is determined by the home nation.
Today’s draw follows Friday’s announcement of changes to the format of both the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup from 2025 onwards, which will see the two competitions’ structures align further. Both the men’s and women’s World Cup of Tennis will feature an eight-team Finals from next season.
The revised Davis Cup structure for the 2025 season has required some nations to play at a higher level than would have been the case in the previous format. Two nations who lost World Group II ties in September (and would have competed in the 2025 World Group II Play-offs) will compete in the World Group I Play-offs. Four nations who did not win promotion from regional Group III events (and would have not played again until the 2025 Group III events) will now contest the World Group II Play-offs next year.
Winning nations from the 2025 World Group I Play-offs will compete in World Group I ties in September alongside the losing nations from the 2025 Qualifiers first round. Losing nations from the 2025 World Group I Play-offs and winning nations from the 2025 World Group II Play-offs will compete in World Group II ties in September. Losing nations from the 2025 World Group II Play-offs will compete in regional Group III events later in the year.
The full draws are listed below.
2025 World Group I Play-offs
Kazakhstan (1) (c)* v Pakistan
Portugal (2) v Monaco (c)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (3) v Uzbekistan (c)*
Colombia (4) (c) v Barbados
Turkiye (5) (c)* v Mexico
Peru (6) v Lebanon (c)*
Ukraine (7) v Tunisia (c)*
Ecuador (8) (c) v Uruguay
Romania (9) (c) v Bulgaria
India (10) (c)* v Togo
Greece (11) (c) v Egypt
Lithuania (12) v Luxembourg (c)
Poland (13) v Georgia (c)
(#) = seed; (c) = choice of ground; * = choice of ground decided by lot
Note 1 = Latvia, Mexico, New Zealand and Pakistan are all ranked 46= in the latest Davis Cup Nations Rankings and were the highest-ranked losing nations in 2024 World Group II. Lots were drawn to determine which two nations (Mexico, Pakistan) would be elevated to the 2025 World Group I Play-offs. The 2025 competition structure requires two additional teams in the World Group I Play-offs.
2025 World Group II Play-offs
Latvia (1) v Benin (c)*
New Zealand (2) v Jamaica (c)*
Ireland (3) v Saudi Arabia (c)*
Morocco (4) v Zimbabwe (c)
South Africa (5) (c)* v Nigeria
El Salvador (6) (c)* v Moldova
Hong Kong, China (7) v Namibia (c)*
Estonia (8) (c)* v Venezuela
Bolivia (9) v Dominican Republic (c)
Slovenia (10) (c)* v Indonesia
China, P.R. (11) v Montenegro (c)*
Paraguay (12) (c)* v Syria
Thailand (13) v Cyprus (c)*
(#) = seed; (c) = choice of ground; * = choice of ground decided by lot
Note 1 = Latvia, Mexico, New Zealand and Pakistan are all ranked 46= in the latest Davis Cup Nations Rankings and were the highest-ranked losing nations in 2024 World Group II. Lots were drawn to determine which two nations would be elevated to the 2025 World Group I Play-offs. Lots were also drawn to determine seeding order of the two nations (Latvia, New Zealand) remaining in the 2025 World Group II Play-offs.
Note 2 = Benin, Indonesia, Jamaica and Moldova were the highest-ranked nations not to win promotion at each of the four 2024 regional Group III events. The 2025 competition structure requires four additional teams in the World Group II Play-offs.