Team events are having quite the resurgence on the men¡¯s tennis circuit, with three different competitions scheduled in the next four months. What¡¯s still unclear, though, is whether they can all co-exist in the long term.
¡°Something¡¯s got to shake out,¡± John McEnroe acknowledged Thursday, ahead of captaining a six-man world team in the annual Laver Cup event.
The three-day Laver Cup, co-owned by and starring Roger Federer, started in 2017 while the International Tennis Federation sought a new format for the historic but ailing Davis Cup. It pits a team of European stars against a selection of players from the rest of the world.
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