{"id":22898,"date":"2026-06-18T03:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/22898\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:07:08","slug":"laver-cup-heads-to-los-angeles-for-2027-to-join-flurry-of-major-sports-events-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/22898\/","title":{"rendered":"Laver Cup heads to Los Angeles for 2027 to join flurry of major sports events in the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Laver Cup<\/a>, the intercontinental tennis competition that has aspired to be the sport\u2019s version of golf\u2019s Ryder Cup, has traveled through the U.S., Canada and Europe since its inception in 2017.<\/p>\n

The event, conceived by Roger Federer and his longtime agent and business partner, Tony Godsick will keep to that formula for 2027. The 10th edition will take place at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, the tech-centric home of the NBA\u2019s Los Angeles Clippers and its owner, Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft Corp. chief executive.<\/p>\n

In a video interview Tuesday ahead of the announcement, Godsick, the chief executive of Team8, the company behind Federer\u2019s business endeavors, said the move places the Laver Cup amid a flurry of major sports events that are taking place in the region during the next two years.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s soccer World Cup is holding games at SoFi Stadium, just down the street. SoFi will host the Super Bowl next February. In 2028, Los Angeles will host the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

The Laver Cup, which will run between September 24 and September 26 2027, isn\u2019t on the same level as those events, despite Federer, Godsick and the team\u2019s huge aspirations for its present and future. This year it will be held at London\u2019s O2 Arena for the second time; the first, in 2022, was the scene of Federer\u2019s retirement from tennis.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles World Cup 2026 Host City Guide<\/p>\n

The tournament, named for Australian tennis legend Rod Laver, encompasses singles and doubles. It takes place over three days, with six players per team. Each team is led by a captain and vice-captain \u2014 currently Yannick Noah and Tim Henman for Team Europe and Andre Agassi and Pat Rafter for Team World. The matches are two sets, with a 10-point tiebreak if the score is 1-1, and victories go up in points value over the three days to ensure that the winner can only be decided on the last one.<\/p>\n

Stars including Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, and Alexander Zverev have represented Europe. Italy\u2019s Jannik Sinner, the men\u2019s world No. 1, is yet to participate. Godsick and Laver Cup chief executive Steve Zacks said they have tried to convince Sinner to play, but his schedule has not yet aligned with the event.<\/p>\n

Notable players on Team World include F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime, Nick Kyrgios, Taylor Fritz, Jo\u00e3o Fonseca, Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe and Alex de Minaur having represented Team World. When Alexander Bublik, who was born in Russia but represents Kazakhstan, plays for Team World in 2026, he will be the first player from a country in Asia to do so.<\/p>\n

Godsick and Zacks said they have explored taking the Laver Cup beyond two continents. Tokyo was on a list of potential destinations, but the Laver Cup\u2019s partnership with the ATP Tour, which holds a regular-season tournament immediately after its slot on the calendar, makes bringing the event there problematic. The Laver Cup is a tour-sanctioned event, but players do not earn rankings points.<\/p>\n

Zacks and Godsick didn\u2019t have a destination for 2027 as the 2025 event came to a close at the Chase Center in San Francisco, but on the final day, Zacks said, he received a phone call from the Intuit Dome\u2019s ownership expressing interest.<\/p>\n

Like San Francisco, Los Angeles and the surrounding area used to be a major destination on the ATP and WTA Tours, but the only event of significance there now is two hours away in Indian Wells. Tennis fans in San Francisco packed the Chase Center last September. Godsick and Zacks are expecting the same results at the Intuit Dome.<\/p>\n

\u201cSports fans in the U.S. are used to spending for experiences,\u201d Zacks said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoger Federer\u2019s vision was to create an event that honored Rod Laver and celebrated the very best of our sport,\u201d said Godsick in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning, we set out to build a team competition unlike anything else in tennis, bringing the world\u2019s best players together as teammates. As we prepare for the 10th edition of the Laver Cup, it\u2019s incredibly rewarding to see how that vision has been embraced by fans, players and partners around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, fans outside of Europe and North America will have to wait to see it up close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Laver Cup, the intercontinental tennis competition that has aspired to be the sport\u2019s version of golf\u2019s Ryder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[552,1308,1599,3342],"class_list":["post-22898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ryder-cup","tag-ryder-cup","tag-culture","tag-sports-business","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}