This thought is good for Laver Cup, large tournaments, and the yearly Finals.
Players & tournament organizations make so many $millions, that I suddenly got an idea.

All the big famous tournaments, should have one free day. Not just the first day, but in the middle.
For the free ticket, there could be some sort of a lottery one month before the tournament begins.
That would prevent confusing crowds standing in line on the free day, hoping to get a seat.

An alternative idea would be 〰〰 no special free day, but for each day of the tournament,
10% of the tickets would randomly, by luck, be free for those ordering tickets at any time.
------ So Be It ------

 

This thought is good for Laver Cup, large tournaments, and the yearly Finals.
Players & tournament organizations make so many $millions, that I suddenly got an idea.

All the big famous tournaments, should have one free day. Not just the first day, but in the middle.
For the free ticket, there could be some sort of a lottery one month before the tournament begins.
That would prevent confusing crowds standing in line on the free day, hoping to get a seat.

An alternative idea would be 〰〰 no special free day, but for each day of the tournament,
10% of the tickets would randomly, by luck, be free for those ordering tickets at any time.
------ So Be It ------

This is a business not a charity my friend

In fact, even charity matches have a price

 

I'm imagining the scene before the photo shoot going something like this.
Captain Agassi to Team World: Chin up, boys, show them we're in it to win it... Four of them listening. Shelton mishearing and giving his sunniest smile instead.
Captain Noah to Team Europe: Look mean, take no prisoners... Four of them getting it right to varying degrees, Rune and Mensik absolutely nailing it. Cobolli and Ruud not really managing it, due to them not having 'mean' in their vocabulary. Fonseca overhearing the advice to the other team and thinking, I can do mean.

Good teams, some star power on both sides, I'm looking forward to the new captains. Could be a close thing. I'm thinking Team World have the edge both in singles and doubles. Plus the 4 Americans are good friends and have the advantage as far as team spirit goes. Shame there's no Aussie on the team, but good to have 2 players from S. America.

I hope we get to see Mensik vs. Fonseca. We're likely to get Alcaraz vs. either Shelton or Fritz, but I'd personally quite like to see him matched against Paul, to see whether Paul can hurt him on indoor hard courts. I'd also like to see Rune vs. Shelton, because they've only played once before. We'll probably end up with yet another Zverev vs. Fritz and Ruud vs. Cerundolo, neither of which would overly excite me.

 

Now a question for all of you: how many overrated players appear in this picture?

 

3

 

I might watch because Yannick Noah and thats it

 

You watch tennis because of someone sitting on the bench?

 

Ugh, Team USA/World will lose again.

Last year, Shelton & Fritz were the only players with positive match records (FC doesn't count). Ben's talents are being wasted at LC & he needs to stop playing the event. Still, I do enjoy watching him battle in those red shirts. Credit to Cerundolor who won both of his singles matches in 2023 & 2024, before a knee issue rendered him useless when we needed him most down the home stretch.

In addition to the limited Aussie, Coconutcase, I knew choosing Tabillow in '24 was a bad choice. A rash, McEnroe decision made from recency bias instead of truth. Never select mentally brittle players for team events. Thankfully, Tableaux is out of the picture this year. I'm not sold on the undercooked, inconsistent J'oww Forsaken. Yes, he won Next Gen, but this is different.

Also, where is Canada? If we're gonna lose, surely you can swap out one of the aging Americans for one of the 3 Mooseketeers? I don't like that Aghastly was helping Runescape find form before LC instead of focusing on USA/World.

As usual, Tiafool can't be trusted to deliver. He's perpetually unfocused and is more interested in being a class clown hype machine than winning. See: Tiaflop's infamous mx performance with Serena. I'll never forget. Last year, Tiafail completely botched Day 3 & reminded people why Shelton is far better. Ben's match against Meddiocre was the best match of the day. By the time we had to go to Fratz, the writing was on the wall.

 

Will Alcaraz avoid Fonseca as usual?

 

Can you please name the tournaments where Alcaraz avoided the overrated Brazilian so far?

 

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It's gonna be weird not seeing Borg there silently clapping along for three days

 

i doubt noah will be as useless as borg but you never know.

maybe he didn’t summon sinner because he wanted to be the only yannick / jannik in the team 👀

 

3

At least 2

How many in each team? You can also name them, whatever you find more fitting.

 

Fonseca Cup 2025.

 

Team Europe with awful looks lol.

 

What’s the point of this meaningless exhibition they should have cancelled this awhile ago.

 

Better chance for players to make money since greedy tournament organizers keep most of it to themselves.

 

I guess Alcaraz is planning on losing early at the US Open again.

 

How much money the winning team gets?
Because they basically play for free(200k before tax apearance fee?) in Taxafornia.

 

I didn’t realise people actually watched this exho.

 

It's actually a reality show.

 

Might as well rename Team World Team Americas! And make it a Ryder cup style combo

No players from Asia, Australia etc at all.

 

I would watch it if it was like a Ryder Cup or even Presidents Cup

Those events always deliver

 

Laver just turned 87, seems a long time since he had that major health issue.... those Ozzies keep knocking around damn

 

Yep.... Good ol' Kenny Rosewall is coming up to 91 in a few months and still sporting a full head of hair better than 80% of 25 year olds..

Mal Anderson,who won the 1957 US OPEN is 90.

Roy Emerson nearing 89 too.

 

1.) What's the ticket price for an average seat in the Chase Center?

2.) Any old timers out there remember the large "Cow Palace" which was just south of S.F.?
It was used as a place for different types of activities, like the yearly Warren Miller ski movie.
I wonder if it's still standing, or torn down to build more condos?

 

 

sorry world you have no chance this year

 

This tourney should've retired with Federer.

 

Yeah bit of an L from Fed. Maybe in the 90s when America was a force it might have made sense tbh, now it is comical (actually more so in the Big 3 era, minus the reality tv entertainment)

 

I don't know how this tournament is still able to sold out with such these overpriced tickets.

 

They go to big cities that didn't see top tennis players in their life.
I don't believe its sold out

 

Commies said Charles is scheduled to play DC after the USO, before the Laver Cup. Can see him withdrawing from LC if he wins USO. Wonder if Fed would double his fee to keep him on the roster...

 

New York to Spain(or whatever europe location) back to San Francisco then Tokyo ,Shanghai S Arabia.
ALL IN 30 DAYS!!!!
GOOD LUCK🤣🤣

 

 

Davis Cup,Laver Cup and then a plethora of tournaments no doubt in the Indoor Season trying to sew up another spot at this years ATP Finals as he shoehorned himself into the last 250 of the year last year to desperately make it in.

Why is he bothering with this nonsense?

 

 

I am shocked no-one is mentioning that this could (and let's face it, given the reality TV show that is Laver cup, will) be the very first official match in the upcoming Razseca rivalry.

@Fogmeister pls comment on the upcoming clash, in particular how many games you think Fonseca will let Raz win out of pity.

 

I am shocked no-one is mentioning that this could (and let's face it, given the reality TV show that is Laver cup, will) be the very first official match in the upcoming Razseca rivalry.

@Fogmeister pls comment on the upcoming clash, in particular how many games you think Fonseca will let Raz win out of pity.

Fonseca 6-7 6-4 6-3 or Alcaraz 6-2 4-6 6-3 win. Depends on how Alca will start the match, but a hard-fought 3-setter expected.