Europe’s line-up for the Laver Cup \u2060in London has been completed with Norway’s Casper Ruud the \u200csixth member of the team to take \u200con Team World at the \u200cO2 Arena.<\/p>\n
The world number 13 will \u200cjoin French Open champion Alexander \u200cZverev<\/a>, seven-times Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Italy’s Flavio Cobolli<\/a>, rising Czech \u200cJakub Mensik<\/a> and Spain’s Rafael \u2060Jodar<\/a> for \u200cthe September 25th-27th event.<\/p>\n Ruud<\/a> will \u200bbe making his sixth successive appearance in the team \u200btournament.<\/p>\n “Casper is exactly the type of player you want on your \u2060team,” Team \u200bEurope captain Yannick Noah<\/a> said.<\/p>\n “He’s a fantastic competitor, a great teammate and someone who really embraces what \u200cthe Laver Cup is all about.<\/p>\n “We were disappointed not to win last year, but that’s given us more motivation.”<\/p>\n The Laver Cup was last held in London in 2022 when Swiss great Roger Federer played the last competitive match of \u200chis career alongside Rafa Nadal \u200bin the doubles.<\/p>\n Team World will be \u200ccaptained by Andre Agassi<\/a> and include Australia’s Alex de Minaur<\/a>, Americans Ben Shelton<\/a>, Taylor Fritz<\/a>, Learner Tien and Tommy Paul<\/a> as \u2060well as \u2060Kazakhstan’s Alexander \u200cBublik<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe’s line-up for the Laver Cup \u2060in London has been completed with Norway’s Casper Ruud the \u200csixth member…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-716334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716334","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=716334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}