Team World has added World No.8 Alex de Minaur to its roster for Laver Cup San Francisco, taking place at Chase Center from September 19-21. De Minaur, Australia\u2019s top-ranked player, replaces Frances Tiafoe (No.29).<\/p>\n
\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
De Minaur, who had qualified for the team based on his ranking after Roland Garros, was originally unavailable to play due to his planned travel from Australia to Asia following the US Open. When Agassi and Vice Captain Pat Rafter reached out to him with this fresh opportunity, the Aussie was keen to accept the invitation to fly back to the US and step up to support Team World as they bid to recapture the Laver Cup.<\/p>\n
A quarterfinalist at six of the last eight Grand Slams, including this year\u2019s Australian Open and US Open, de Minaur is one of the most consistent performers on tour. Renowned for his grit and work ethic he has won 10 ATP Tour singles titles, including this year\u2019s ATP 500 in Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to join Captain Agassi and Team World in San Francisco next week,\u201d said de Minaur. \u201cMy first Laver Cup 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 Laver Cup at Chase Center.\u201d<\/p>\n
Team Europe currently leads the all-time Laver Cup series 5-2, edging out Team World 13-11 last year in Berlin. Team World won the Laver Cup in Vancouver in 2023 after winning their first title in London in 2022. Team Europe won the first four editions in Prague in 2017, Chicago in 2018, Geneva in 2019 and Boston in 2021.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s team rosters are as follows:<\/p>\n
Team World
\nTeam Europe<\/p>\n
Captain: Andre Agassi
\nCaptain: Yannick Noah<\/p>\n
Vice Captain: Pat Rafter
\nVice Captain: Tim Henman<\/p>\n
Taylor Fritz
\nCarlos Alcaraz<\/p>\n
Alex de Minaur
\nAlexander Zverev<\/p>\n
Francisco Cerundolo
\nHolger Rune<\/p>\n
Alex Michelsen
\nCasper Ruud<\/p>\n
Jo\u00e3o Fonseca
\nJakub Mensik<\/p>\n
Reilly Opelka
\nFlavio Cobolli<\/p>\n
A limited number of Laver Cup 2025 tickets remain. Tickets are available for Open Practice Day presented by FICO on Thursday, September 18, for $20 ($31.65 inclusive of fees). All tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster<\/a>, the official ticketing partner of Chase Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team World has added World No.8 Alex de Minaur to its roster for Laver Cup San Francisco, taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[29089,99,93654,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-152375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alex-de-minaur","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-team-world","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}