{"id":133370,"date":"2025-09-12T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133370\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T23:58:08","slug":"alex-de-minaur-replaces-frances-tiafoe-in-laver-cup-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133370\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex de Minaur replaces Frances Tiafoe in Laver Cup | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        ATP Tour<br \/>\n    De Minaur replaces Tiafoe in Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>The Australian is set to represent Team World in San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>September 12, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/de-minuar-2025-laver-cup-tiafoe-replacement.jpg\" alt=\"Alex de Minaur first played for Team World at the Laver Cup in 2022.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Julian Finney\/Getty Images for Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>        Alex de Minaur first played for Team World at the Laver Cup in 2022.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alex-de-minaur\/dh58\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex de Minaur<\/a> has joined Team World&#8217;s lineup for this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a>, replacing American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/frances-tiafoe\/td51\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frances Tiafoe<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a> takes place 19-21 September at the Chase Center in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur made his debut for Team World at the 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a>. Team World won its first title that year in London, followed by another victory in Vancouver in 2023. This year, Team World will be led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/andre-agassi\/a092\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Agassi<\/a>, who is replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/john-mcenroe\/m047\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John McEnroe<\/a> as the new captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to join Captain Agassi and Team World in San Francisco next week,\u201d said De Minaur, who holds a 1-0 record at the competition. \u201cMy first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a> back in 2022 in London was an incredible experience and I will be ready to give it everything I\u2019ve got to help the team lift the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/laver-cup\/9210\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a> at Chase Center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757721488_475_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team World&#8217;s roster will now feature three Americans: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/taylor-fritz\/fb98\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Fritz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alex-michelsen\/m0qi\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Michelsen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/reilly-opelka\/o522\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reilly Opelka<\/a>, alongside Australian De Minaur, #NextGenATP Brazilian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/joao-fonseca\/f0fv\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joao Fonseca<\/a>, and Argentine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/francisco-cerundolo\/c0au\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francisco Cerundolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will miss Frances\u2019 energy and game in San Francisco,\u201d said Agassi. \u201cHowever, we couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to add one of the best and most in-form players in the world to our team. I\u2019ve admired the way Alex plays and competes from afar and now look forward to having a front row seat to watching him perform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Minaur, No. 8 in the PIF ATP Rankings, holds a 41-16 season record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. He has reached the quarter-finals at six of the last eight Grand Slams, including this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/australian-open\/580\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/us-open\/560\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a>. He clinched his first title of the season at the ATP 500 event in Washington in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour De Minaur replaces Tiafoe in Laver Cup The Australian is set to represent Team World in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-133370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}