Official: Federer paired with Nadal at Laver Cup before retiring

Tomorrow 23/9, Laver Cup 2022 will officially start. This year, the tournament was held at The O2 Arena Stadium in London, England. The tournament takes place within 3 days, which ends on September 25.

Notably, Laver Cup 2022 will be the last professional tournament of Roger Federer. On September 15, the Swiss tennis player had just confirmed he would attend the tournament in London before officially retired. Therefore, the tournament is attracting great attention from the felt ball village in particular and the sports world in general.

Official: Federer paired with Nadal in Laver Cup before retiring - Photo 2
Federer paired with Nadal at Laver Cup before retiring

Recently, the BTC Laver Cup has just announced the first day schedule. The focal match will be the men's match, which takes place at 2:30 am on 24/9. Here, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will represent the European team to face the Frances Tiafoe / Jack Sock on the world team.

This will also be the last official match in Federer's career. Earlier, the Swiss Express Train confirmed that she would not play single matches at the tournament. Instead, he will only attend only 1 match on the first day.

In the remaining matches, Casper Ruud and Jack Sock will fight the opening match, at 19:00 pm on 23/9. Shortly thereafter, Stefanos Tsitsipas will face Diego Schwartzman in the single 2 match. By 1:00 am on September 24, Andy Murray and Alex De Minaur will fight the men's men's battle 3 before the couple takes place.

Talking more about Laver Cup, this is the tennis tournament initiated by Federer. The tournament takes place among players in two teams: European tennis team and the rest of the world. In particular, the world team includes players from European countries.

Official: Federer paired with Nadal at Laver Cup before retiring - Photo 3
Federer announced the retirement after Laver Cup on September 15

Laver Cup's competition format is as follows: The tournament takes place in 3 days, there are 3 single matches a day and 1 match. Each player of each team must play at least 2 single matches in 3 days. At least 4 of the 6 players of each team must participate in double.

The teams will win 1 point if winning the first day of competition, 2 points on the day of the second and the third point on the third day. The team that touches the 13th score before is the winning team. If the score is 12-12, there will be a double match to take place on Sunday. All matches takes place in the form of Best-of-Three, with a series of tie-breaks reaching point 10.

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