Team World: second late change in a week<\/p>\n
No reason was given for Shelton\u2019s withdrawal, though the US Open runner-up is due to play Davis Cup for the United States in the Czech Republic from Friday, less than a week after losing the US Open final to Alexander Zverev \u2013 a defeat that still lifted him to a career-high No. 4. Zverev will be on the other bench in London, in Yannick Noah\u2019s Team Europe.<\/p>\n
It is the second change to Agassi\u2019s roster inside a week. Tommy Paul withdrew through injury on 12 September and was replaced by Francisco Cer\u00fandolo. Team World arrive as defending champions, having beaten Team Europe 15-9 in San Francisco last year. <\/p>\n
Nakashima: Montreal final, Cincinnati semis, first Top 20<\/p>\n
Nakashima has had much the best season of his career. He reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final in Montreal in August and the semi-finals the following week in Cincinnati, results that took him into the world\u2019s Top 20 for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to be making my Laver Cup debut in London,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an event I\u2019ve always dreamed of playing, and I can\u2019t wait to be part of Team World, competing alongside the guys and playing for Andre and Pat (Rafter, vice-captain). Looking forward to getting to The O2 and doing everything I can to help the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noah\u2019s Team Europe, with Tim Henman as vice-captain, is made up of Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Flavio Cobolli, Casper Ruud, Jakub Men\u0161\u00edk and Rafael J\u00f3dar, the 20-year-old Spaniard who is the side\u2019s only newcomer and will also be making his debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team World: second late change in a week No reason was given for Shelton\u2019s withdrawal, though the US…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-896194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}