Andre Agassi to replace John McEnroe as captain of Team World at 2025 Laver Cup

FILE - Former Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi poses with the men's Norman Brookes Challenge Cup trophy ahead of the start of the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (Andy Wong/AP)

NEW YORK — Andre Agassi will take over from John McEnroe as the captain for Team World at the Laver Cup next year, when the event will be held in San Francisco.

Laver Cup organizers announced Agassi’s selection on Wednesday and said Bjorn Borg’s successor as captain of Team Europe will be named “in the coming days.”

McEnroe and Borg have been the captains since the first edition of the Laver Cup in 2017.

Agassi is an eight-time Grand Slam champion who retired in 2006.

This year’s Laver Cup is in Berlin on Sept. 20-22.

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