Laver Cup announces San Francisco as 2025 host city

Chicago, Boston, and now San Francisco: The City by the Bay will be the latest U.S. city to host the Laver Cup. In 2025, the innovative team competition will be held over three days at the Chase Center, home of the NBA's Golden State Warriors, from Sept. 19-21.

The 2024 event will be held after the US Open in September in Berlin, Germany.

Named in honor of tennis great Rod Laver, the only man to win the calendar-year Grand Slam twice, the Laver Cup began in 2017 and pits the world's best players into two teams akin to golf's Ryder Cup: Team Europe and Team World. Over three days of competition, the two teams compete in singles and doubles matches for points. Matches on the first day of competition are worth one point, matches on the second day are worth two, and matches on the third day are worth three, meaning that there is no scenario where either side can clinch victory before the final day. 

Team Europe won the first four editions of the competition, but Team World has won the last two, thanks in part to the efforts of the world's best U.S. men; in 2022, Frances Tiafoe won the Laver Cup-clinching match, and last year, Taylor Fritz, Tiafoe, Tommy Paul and Ben Shelton all chipped in for Team World's title defense.

Federer said Thursday that the competition's exciting format will be chief among what will resonate with Bay Area sports fans.