By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, September 19, 2024Photo credit score: Clive Brunskill/Getty for Laver Cup
It is Laver Cup weekend and Tennis Channel is your ticket to reside protection.
Tennis Channel touts it would televise 22 hours of reside Laver Cup protection beginning on Friday, September twentieth at 7 a.m. Japanese time from the Uber Area in Berlin.
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Tennis Channel’s Dwell 2024 Laver Cup Schedule
Friday, September 20 7 a.m. Day Session (Two Singles) and 1 p.m. Evening Session (Singles, Doubles)
Saturday, September 21 7 a.m. Day Session (Two Singles) and 1 p.m. Evening Session (Singles, Doubles)
Sunday, September 22 6 a.m. Day Session (Doubles*)
Laver Cup Berlin will likely be contested Friday, September 20-Sunday, September 22.
Among the many many headliners collaborating within the occasion are three Individuals who just lately thrilled US Open audiences at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York and on tv units across the planet: finalist Taylor Fritz, semifinalist Frances Tiafoe and younger phenom Ben Shelton.
The American stars and the remainder of Workforce World will face an achieved European squad that features four-time main singles champion Carlos Alcarez, 2021 US Open winner Daniil Medvedev and World No. 2 singles participant Alexander Zverev. That is the seventh Laver Cup competitors, held yearly since 2017 aside from 2020 in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The three-day occasion rotates yearly between websites in Europe and the remainder of the world.
Tennis Channel will dedicate 22 reside hours to Laver Cup in 2024, and near 60 total with encore replays every day. The on-air staff options a number of former gamers, together with Corridor of Famer Jim Courier, Jason Goodall, Mark Petchey, Leif Shiras and Mark Knowles.
Laver Cup, which is known as after legendary Australian participant Rod Laver, options groups which are captained once more by stars in one of many sport’s most legendary rivalries. John McEnroe will lead Workforce World in opposition to his longtime rival, good friend and Workforce Europe captain Bjorn Borg. Each Corridor of Famers are on the helms of their respective groups for the seventh and remaining time.
McEnroe’s vice captain is his brother, Patrick, whereas Borg’s is Thomas Enqvist. Fritz, Tiafoe and Shelton are joined on Workforce World by Chile’s Alejandro Tabilo, Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo and Australia’s Thanasi Kokkinakis.
Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov, Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas and Norway’s Casper Ruud spherical out Workforce Europe’s roster.
