Laver Cup 2023: How to watch and live stream, schedule, who's playing, are Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz playing?
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Updated 20/09/2023 at 08:20 GMT+1
The 2023 Laver Cup will be held in Vancouver as Team World look to defend the trophy against Team Europe. Roger Federer retired from tennis at last year's Laver Cup alongside Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic, but the teams look very different this season. We run through how to watch and live stream the Laver Cup, as well as the schedule of the three-day event.
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Team Europe and Team World meet for the sixth time as the 2023 Laver Cup takes place in Vancouver, Canada.
Team World won the Laver Cup for the first time last year with a 13-8 win.
The 2022 edition , with Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic also competing for Team Europe.
The teams this year look very different as captains Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe have assembled new line-ups bidding to win the Laver Cup, which has been dubbed as tennis' version of golf's Ryder Cup.
Ahead of the event, we run through how you can watch and live stream the Laver Cup in the UK and all the details about the schedule and order of play.
When and where is the 2023 Laver Cup?
The Laver Cup has so far alternated each year between the USA and Europe. This year it will be played in Canada for the first time at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
The event will run from September 22 to 24.
How to watch and stream the 2023 Laver Cup
You can watch every day of the 2023 Laver Cup live on Eurosport, eurosport.co.uk, the Eurosport app and on-demand on discovery+.
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Who’s playing the 2023 Laver Cup?
There will be no member of the ‘Big Four’ at the Laver Cup for only the time since its inception.
Casper Ruud and Andrey Rublev will be leading Team Europe as they aim to win back the trophy.
Stefanos Tsitsipas has withdrawn due to injury and has been replaced by 19-year-old Arthur Fils, while Alejandro Davidovich Fokina was a late call-up to replace Holger Rune, who also pulled out due to injury.
Hubert Hurkacz and veteran Gael Monfils are also on the team.
Carlos Alcaraz is not included and is yet to play in the Laver Cup.
There’s a strong American presence in Team World with Taylor Fritz, Frances Tiafoe, Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton in the line-up.
Felix Auger-Aliassime and Francisco Cerundolo make up the team, while Christopher Eubanks and Milos Raonic are alternates.
Nick Kyrgios was part of Team World but pulled out as he recovers from injury.
Although Federer won't be playing the Laver Cup, he will be at the tournament, which he co-founded, across all three days and will flip the coin for the last match on Friday evening.
What is the 2023 Laver Cup schedule?
All three of the days are scheduled to have three singles matches and one doubles match.
The final day could be shorter as the last matches will only be played if needed to decide the result.
Play will start at 9pm UK time on Friday and Saturday, and 8pm on Sunday.
- Day 1: 2 x singles in day session, 1 x singles and 1 x doubles in night session
- Day 2: 2 x singles in day session, 1 x singles and 1 x doubles in night session
- Day 3: 1 x doubles, followed by 3 x singles (if needed)
The order of play for each day will be released closer to the event.
How does the format work?
There will be three singles matches and a doubles match on each of the days. On Day 1, a victory is worth one point, on Day 2 a win is worth two points and on Day 3, three points. The goal is to reach 13 points overall to become the champions.
Each match is best-of-three sets, although the deciding set will be a 10-point tie-breaker.
Every player will take part once or twice in the singles matches, with at least four of the six playing in the doubles.
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Stream and watch the 2023 Laver Cup exclusively live across Europe on Eurosport and discovery+
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