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10 years of Laver Cup: Nerves, serves and Federer’s ‘lucky’ London farewell
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10 years of Laver Cup: Nerves, serves and Federer’s ‘lucky’ London farewellThe Laver Cup pits Europe against a Rest of the World Team over three days of tennisTony Godsick vividly remembers the day, exactly 10 years ago, when he and Roger Federer, his biggest client, went public with their big idea: the Laver Cup.
When I and Roger created the Laver Cup, we never thought it’d be used as a platform for his retirement.
“Then, after the [Wimbledon] Championships back in ‘22 and he realized, ‘where am I gonna retire?’ I said, ‘Well, you can wait a whole year and retire at Wimbledon, or the easiest place is a Laver Cup’.
Rod Laver, who inspired the competition’s name, and Laver Cup co-founder Tony Godsick (Image: @LaverCup)Stars will stick by Laver Cup as tennis evolvesAs players, tours and Slams wrangle over how the sport should look in future, the Laver Cup appears to have pulled off the rare feat of uniting the competing factions in tennis.
“I’m confident they’ll end up picking an event like the Laver Cup.”