Not important in the world of tennis but also very important: there is an exhibition tournament called the Laver Cup, it is a team tournament where the teams are Team Europe vs Team World. There are singles and doubles matches and the winners earn points for their team.
So if you see the Big 4 in any mix wearing blue and playing on a doubles team or coaching each other, it’s from the Laver Cup because they are all from Europe. It’s an unofficial rule that only 2 of the Big 3 play on the same year so that others get to play, this rule was broken last year since Federer was too injured to play competitively and wanted to play one more time at this tournament so all 4 played on one team.
Federer also did not tell anyone he would be retiring until a few days before he announced it, but he told Nadal weeks in advance so he could ask Nadal if he would be his doubles partner. Federer said he was nervous to go through his retirement alone so he wanted Nadal with him. Nadal, who had just lost in the USO thanks to his Wimbledon injury and was expecting his first child within weeks of the Laver Cup, made sure to come even tho he was probably going to skip it otherwise
The Cup is fun because you have all these players that usually play against each other helping each other and coaching and being goofy on the benches together. It’s cute
🥹🥹🥹 no this is actually the most important update of all!!!
Actually still deceased about the tennis big 4 finally seeing themselves as an interconnected entity when they realised the end of their era is nearing. Federer saying he was happy to go first from the 4 as he was the oldest, Murray saying how right he felt that Federer got to close his career with Nadal after seeing them battle up close for so long, Nadal saying his generation of tennis is almost ending with only Novak and Andy still left, Djokovic and his age jokes about the new younger generation and not wanting to name any of the next gen as his rival when Rafa is still playing, them crying together for Roger in Laver Cup???