Stan Sport locks in Laver Cup tennis rights

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Stan Sport volition broadcast the Laver Cup aft securing rights successful a multi-year statement for the unsocial men's tennis competition.

The contention is successful its 4th twelvemonth and features 2 teams - Team Europe and Team World - of six players successful 12 matches that see 9 singles and 3 doubles clashes.

Every lucifer from TD Garden successful Boston volition beryllium exclusively streaming ad-free, unrecorded and on-demand lone connected Stan Sport, starting connected September 25.

Watch Nick Kyrgios, Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and the game's biggest stars astatine the Laver Cup, with each lucifer streaming ad-free, unrecorded and on-demand lone connected Stan Sport from September 25. Start your 7-day escaped proceedings here!

"The Laver Cup has go 1 of the astir thrilling tennis competitions connected the yearly calendar. We are pleased to invited this innovative tennis tourney featuring immoderate of the world's champion players and iconic captains John McEnroe and Björn Borg arsenic our newest unrecorded sports lawsuit to Stan aboriginal this month," Stan Acting Chief Executive Officer Martin Kugeler said.

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"We had a terrific effect to our Wimbledon and Roland Garros sum earlier this twelvemonth and look guardant to bringing tennis fans the Laver Cup connected Stan Sport."

Nick Kyrgios astatine the Laver Cup (Getty)

The 2021 Laver Cup volition diagnostic 2 tennis icons starring some teams, with Björn Borg lining up as Team Europe's captain and John McEnroe in complaint of Team World.

"The Laver Cup is named to honour Australian tennis icon Rod Laver. It is fitting and indispensable that his location federation tin travel each the enactment from Boston unrecorded connected Stan Sport,"" Laver Cup CEO Steve Zacks said.

"Bringing unneurotic rivals arsenic teammates is conscionable 1 of the unsocial elements of The Laver Cup that has captivated fans astir the world. We look guardant to different spectacular play of competition."

Denis Shapovalov, Thanasi Kokkinakis, Frances Tiafoe and Nick Kyrgios of Team World respond during a men's doubles lucifer connected the last time of the Laver Cup connected September 24, 2017. (Getty)

Team Europe volition see satellite No. 2 Daniil Medvedev (Russia) and satellite No. 3 Stefanos Tsitspas (Greece). Team World volition diagnostic Australia's Nick Kyrgios, alongside American John Isnerworld No. 10 Denis Shapovalov (Canada) and satellite No. 14 Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada).

"The Laver Cup is my favourite week of the twelvemonth and I conscionable emotion being portion of the team," Team World typical Nick Kyrgios said.

"It's going to beryllium unreal playing astatine TD Garden, location of the Celtics. Boston fans emotion their sport, truthful if we tin triumph the Laver Cup anywhere, past TD Garden and Boston, 1 of the top sports cities successful the satellite is the spot to bash it."

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