Laver Cup announces San Francisco as 2025 host city
Chicago, Boston, and now San Francisco: The City by the Bay will be the latest U.S. city to host the Laver Cup. In 2025, the innovative team competition will be held over three days at the Chase Center, home of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, from Sept. 19-21.
The 2024 event will be held after the US Open in September in Berlin, Germany.
Named in honor of tennis great Rod Laver, the only man to win the calendar-year Grand Slam twice, the Laver Cup began in 2017 and pits the world's best players into two teams akin to golf's Ryder Cup: Team Europe and Team World. Over three days of competition, the two teams compete in singles and doubles matches for points. Matches on the first day of competition are worth one point, matches on the second day are worth two, and matches on the third day are worth three, meaning that there is no scenario where either side can clinch victory before the final day.
Team Europe won the first four editions of the competition, but Team World has won the last two, thanks in part to the efforts of the world's best U.S. men; in 2022, Frances Tiafoe won the Laver Cup-clinching match, and last year, Taylor Fritz, Tiafoe, Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton all chipped in for Team World's title defense.
Federer said Thursday that the competition's exciting format will be chief among what will resonate with Bay Area sports fans.
“Bay Area fans will love the way the Laver Cup brings together the world’s top players as teammates,” said 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer, winner of three Laver Cup titles with Team Europe and a founder of the event. “They will get to see them putting aside their rivalries and sitting courtside together cheering each other on. This doesn’t exist anywhere else.
“Many tennis players are NBA fans themselves. They will be excited to perform for the first time in one the world’s most spectacular arenas, and home to the Warriors.”
More information on Laver Cup can be found on the official event website, lavercup.com.
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