Laver Cup tennis 2017: Team line-ups, tournament format, schedule, betting odds, TV channel and results

The tennis world has turned its attention to the Laver Cup – a new team competition which has been widely dubbed the ‘Ryder Cup of tennis’.

It will see Europe face a rest of the world team with six players on each side. Some of the top names in the sport such as Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will feature.

Here is your full guide to who’s playing, where and when it’s taking place and exactly what the format of the competition is.

Laver Cup: Schedule, order of play & results

Matches which go to a third set will be first to 10 points

Friday, September 22
(1pt per win)

Day session (1200 BST)

• Marin Cilic beat Frances Tiafoe 7-6 (7/3) 7-6 (7/0)
• Dominic Thiem beat John Isner 6-7 (15/17) 7-6 (7/3) 10-7

Night session (1800 BST)

• Alex Zverev beat Denis Shapovalov 7-6 (7/3) 7-6 (7/5)
• Rafael Nadal & Tomas Berdych lost to Nick Kyrgios & Jack Sock 3-6 7-6 (9/7) 7-10

END OF DAY ONE SCORE: Team Europe 3-1 Team World

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Saturday, September 23
(2pts per win)

Day session (1200 BST)

• Roger Federer beat Sam Querrey 6-4 6-2
• Rafael Nadal beat Jack Sock 6-3 3-6 11-9

Night session (1800 BST)

• Tomas Berdych lost to Nick Kyrgios 6-4 6-7 (4/7) 6-10
• Roger Federer & Rafael Nadal beat Sam Querrey & Jack Sock 6-4 1-6 10-5

END OF DAY SCORE: Team Europe 9-3 Team World

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Sunday, September 24
(3pts per win)

Day session (1100 BST)

• Tomas Berdych & Marin Cilic lost to Jack Sock & John Isner 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (8-6)
• Alexander Zverev beat Sam Querrey 6-4 6-4
• Rafael Nadal lost to John Isner 7-5 7-6 (7/1)
• Roger Federer beat Nick Kyrgios 4-6 7-6 (8/6) 11-9

FINAL SCORE: Team Europe 15-9 Team World

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Laver Cup: Team line-ups

Europe

• Rafael Nadal
• Roger Federer
• Marin Cilic
• Dominic Thiem
• Alex Zverev *
• Tomas Berdych *
• (Alternate: Fernando Verdasco)

Captain: Bjorn Borg

World

• John Isner
• Jack Sock
• Nick Kyrgios
• Sam Querrey
• Denis Shapovalov *
• Frances Tiafoe *
• (Alternate: Thanasi Kokkinakis)

Captain: John McEnroe

Four players on each team qualified via the post-Wimbledon ATP rankings. The other players were chosen by the captain – such players are indicated above by an asterisk.

Andy Murray qualified for Team Europe but turned down the chance to play, as did the currently-injured Novak Djokovic. For Team World, Kei Nishikori decided against playing, while Milos Raonic withdrew due to injury. He has been replaced by Kyrgios. Juan Martin Del Potro was initially a captain's pick but he also pulled out due to injury with Tiafoe stepping in.

Laver Cup: Betting and odds

Sky Bet made Europe pretty heavy favourites at the start of the competition. Boasting several top-10 players, the Europeans were 1/4 to lift the trophy with the World team offered as 11/4 outsiders.

Click here for all the latest Laver Cup odds

Laver Cup: Where, when and TV coverage

The inaugural Laver Cup, named after legendary Australian player Rod Laver, takes place on an indoor hardcourt at Prague’s O2 Arena from September 22-24.

It will be televised live in the UK by Sky Sports.

Laver Cup: Format

Conceived by a consortium made up of Federer’s management company TEAM8, Tennis Australia, the USTA and businessman Jorge Paulo Lemann, one of the world’s richest men, the competition will be played over three days with each seeing four matches – three singles and one doubles.

Each match will be the best of three sets with ad scoring. The third set, if required, will be a first-to-10-points champions tie-break.

Each player must play at least one singles match across the three days but none will be able to play more than twice in singles. Also, at least four of the six players must play doubles. For the first day's play, as at the Ryder Cup who plays whom will be decided by a blind draw, with each captain submitting their line-up without knowledge of their opposite number's.

However, for days two and three, one captain will submit his card to the opposing skipper to review. With that knowledge, he will then make his own choices. Europe captain Borg will get to choose for which of the two days he gets to receive Team World's line-up (he chose Saturday).

The matches taking place on day one (Friday) will all be worth one point each to the overall score. Saturday’s matches will have two points at stake and Sunday’s three. The scoring system ensures the destination of the trophy is guaranteed to be decided on the final day. Thirteen points will be the target for a team to be crowned winners.

In the event of a 12-12 tie, an ‘overtime’ one-set doubles match will be played. A tie-break will decide this if required.

Laver Cup: 2018 and beyond

It is planned for future editions of the Laver Cup to be played alternatively between Europe and the rest of the world.

It had already been announced that the 2018 Laver Cup would take place in the USA and in Prague it was revealed that Chicago would be the host city.

The competition will take place in the same week (two weeks after the US Open) every year barring those which feature the summer Olympic Games.

The Laver Cup is therefore due to return to Europe in 2019 but won't be played in 2020 - the year of the Tokyo Olympics.