The tournament was inspired by golf’s Ryder Cup and is named after Australian tennis legend Rod Laver.
The 2024 Laver Cup will be held in Berlin, Germany, between September 20 and 22.
Carlos Alcaraz was captain Bjorn Borg’s first pick for the 2024 Laver Cup and will make his debut in the competition. In February 2024, Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev joined the team; both are previous champions.
Captain John McEnroe has picked Australia’s Alex de Minaur and Americans Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul as his first picks for Team World for the 2024 edition.
Defending champion Team World consisted of:
Team Europe consisted of:
The 2023 edition of the Laver Cup was held in Vancouver, Canada at the Rogers Arena. The previous editions have been held in the below cities:
Team World recorded a 13-2 victory to defend their Laver Cup title.
Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe, who each went 3-0 over the weekend, clinched the victory with a 7-6(4), 7-6(5) victory.
The tournament is played over three days with the first two days consisting of a day and a night session, and a day session on the third day. Four matches – three singles and a doubles match– are played each day. All matches are played in a best-of-three sets format with ad scoring. If the first two sets are tied, then the third is decided by a 10-point match tiebreaker.
Each win earns the team one point on Friday, two points on Saturday, and three points on Sunday. The first team to win 13 points (out of a total 24 points available) wins the trophy. If the points are tied at 12-12 at the end of all matches, a fifth match (the “Decider”) is played on the final day to determine the winner of the tournament.
The tournament is the brainchild of Roger Federer and his agent, Tony Godsick. The tournament is an ATP-sanctioned event.
The tournament is named after Rod Laver, one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Laver. who hailed from Australia, is the only player in the history of the sport to win the calendar Grand Slam (all four majors in a single season) twice – in 1962 as an amateur and in 1969 as a pro.
Three of the six players on each team qualify based on their ATP singles rankings as of the Monday after Roland-Garros in June, although if they do not wish to be selected, the captains will choose another high-ranked individual. The captains select the other three members of their team – the “captain’s picks” – to be made before the 2024 US Open.
So far the winners and scores have been:
Was Roger Federer at the 2023 Laver Cup?
Roger Federer was at the 2023 Laver Cup. He retired at the 2022 edition, and marked the one-year anniversary since his step back from competitive tennis by appearing on the first day to make the draw for the last match.
He gave a 30-minute on-court interview with Jim Courier after Friday night’s final match.
