{"id":152859,"date":"2025-09-18T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152859\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T15:00:09","slug":"the-problem-some-players-suggested-taylor-fritz-may-have-with-andre-agassi-coaching-him-at-the-laver-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152859\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem some players suggested Taylor Fritz may have with Andre Agassi coaching him at the Laver Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taylor Fritz makes his return to the Laver Cup this week, marking his fifth appearance at the team event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/taylor-fritz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fritz<\/a> helped guide Team World to back-to-back Laver Cup success in 2022 and 2023, and has a 5-2 win-loss record from his seven matches.<\/p>\n<p>With 10 points to his name from his four appearances, the American is fifth in Team World\u2019s all-time Laver Cup points scoring list.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco welcomes many of the top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> players for this year\u2019s tournament, along with two new coaches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/andre-agassi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Agassi<\/a> has taken over from John McEnroe for Team World, with Yannick Noah replacing Bjorn Borg for Team Europe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2235786680-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Team Europe Captain Yannick Noah and Team World Captain Andre Agassi pose with the Laver Cup trophy prior to the start of the Laver Cup 2025 at Chase Center.\" class=\"wp-image-130463\" \/>Photo by Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images for Laver CupThe problem Taylor Fritz may have with Andre Agassi at the Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the action starts, Fritz has shared insight into his relationship with Agassi, which may include a funny stumbling block.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndre Agassi is someone that I think a lot of us American guys looked up to for a very long time, and I looked up to when I was a kid, so I\u2019m really excited to get the chance to be on court with him and play under him,\u201d said Fritz, as quoted by the Laver Cup <a href=\"https:\/\/lavercup.com\/news\/2025\/09\/17\/taylor-fritz-built-for-the-occasion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/laver-cup-2025-players-rules-how-to-watch-and-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup 2025: Players, rules, how to watch and everything you need to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited to get the chance to pick Andre\u2019s brain. Some people made some jokes that we might not get a lot of practicing done with all the talking that we might be doing, but I\u2019m really excited for the opportunity to be on court and work through that process with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Fritz makes prediction about Joao Fonseca for the 2025 Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Fritz was also on hand to discuss one of the most exciting prospects at the Laver Cup, and indeed on the ATP Tour in general.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke highly of Brazilian star Joao Fonseca, with the 19-year-old making his tournament debut this week.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz said of his teammate: \u201cI think he\u2019s going to come out and compete as hard as he can, and I think he\u2019s going to light it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited to have him on the team\u2026 we\u2019re going to get to spend a lot of time together and hopefully he brings all the Brazilian fans to cheer for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his brief career so far, Fonseca boasts a huge following, and he\u2019s also already claimed one ATP title.<\/p>\n<p>But he may just need some guidance from an experienced player like Fritz, who should incidentally receive huge support in San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz makes his return to the Laver Cup this week, marking his fifth appearance at the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[25088,6733,49,48,78773,82,15226,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-152859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andre-agassi","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-laver-cup","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-taylor-fritz","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}