13 Points: What you need to know about the 2025 Laver Cup

The stars of the ATP tour will descend on San Francisco this week for the 2025 Laver Cup, to be held at the Chase Center this Friday to Sunday, September 19 to 21.

Tennis Channel and the Tennis Channel App will bring you all of the action as Team Europe and Team World battle it out in a series of singles and doubles matches. Each win on Friday is worth one point, each win on Saturday is worth two points, and each win on Sunday is worth three points.

The first team to reach 13 points will lift the Laver Cup—and here are 13 things to know about the star-studded team competition:

1. This is the eighth edition of Laver Cup. The first seven took place in Prague (2017), Chicago (2018), Geneva (2019), Boston (2021), London (2022), Vancouver (2023) and Berlin (2024). The location rotates between Europe and cities outside of Europe each year.

2. Team Europe has won five of the seven previous Laver Cups—but Team World has won two of the last three. Team Europe swept the first four editions in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021, before Team World won two straight in 2022 and 2023. The Europeans took the trophy back in 2024.

3. Three of the current ATP Top 5 are coming to San Francisco this year. Carlos Alcaraz—who just returned to No. 1 after winning the US Open—and No. 3-ranked Alexander Zverev are on Team Europe, while No. 5-ranked Taylor Fritz will head up Team World.

4. At least one of Alcaraz, Zverev or Fritz has reached the final in each of the last seven majors. The streak started at Roland Garros last year, with Alcaraz being in five of those finals, Zverev being in two (2024 Roland Garros and the 2025 Australian Open) and Fritz one (the 2024 US Open).

5. With No. 8-ranked Alex de Minaur, four of the current ATP Top 8 are in the field. The Australian is fresh off an excellent summer, highlighted by the 10th ATP title of his career at the ATP 500 event in Washington D.C., and reaching his sixth Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open.

6. A slew of other big names will be in action too. Five more players are currently ranked inside the Top 25—Holger Rune, Casper Ruud, Jakub Mensik, Francisco Cerundolo and Flavio Cobolli—plus former Top 20 player Reilly Opelka and two young rising stars in Alex Michelsen and Joao Fonseca.

7. Zverev is by far the most decorated player in Laver Cup history. He’s been a part of all five of Team Europe’s victories—and he didn’t play the event the two years Team World won. The German is 9-5 in his career at Laver Cup, going 7-2 in singles and 2-3 in doubles.

8. Six other players in this year’s field have been a part of Laver Cup-winning teams. Ruud (2021 and 2024) and Fritz (2022 and 2023) are both multiple-time Cup winners, while de Minaur (2022), Cerundolo (2023), Alcaraz (2024) and Cobolli (2024, non-playing) have also lifted the trophy.

9. Alcaraz is making his second career appearance at Laver Cup. He made his debut last year, going 2-0 in singles with wins over Fritz and Ben Shelton, and 1-1 in doubles, winning with Ruud (against Shelton and Frances Tiafoe) but losing with Zverev (against Fritz and Shelton).

10. Alcaraz comes into this year’s event with some major momentum. He’s won his last 13 matches in a row, as well as 37 of his last 38 and 46 of his last 48. Wins and losses at Laver Cup count as tour-level wins and losses, so he could keep adding to those numbers this weekend.

11. A pair of all-time greats are the team captains this year. Andre Agassi, an eight-time Grand Slam champion and former world No.1, will lead Team World, while Yannick Noah, former No. 3 and the last Frenchman to win Roland Garros (1983), will head up Team Europe.

12. The vice captains are extremely accomplished, too. Team World’s vice captain is Patrick Rafter, a former No. 1 and two-time Grand Slam champion (US Open in 1997 and 1998), while Team Europe’s vice captain is Tim Henman, a six-time Grand Slam semifinalist and former No. 4.

13. And finally, we’ve had so many iconic moments at Laver Cup over the years—will there be another one this year? Most notably, the retirement that touched the hearts of fans around the world in 2022, when Roger Federer played the final match of his career. There are no retirements planned this year, but stay tuned to Tennis Channel to catch all the action and iconic moments this weekend!