What is the order of matches on Day 1 of the Laver Cup 2026 at The O2 on Friday, September 25?
Day 1 of the Laver Cup 2026 gets underway Friday, September 25, at The O2 in London. Here’s the confirmed lineup of matches for the day.
📅 Day 1 matchups at The O2
- Casper Ruud vs. Francisco Cerundolo
- Jakub Mensik vs. Brandon Nakashima
- Rafael Jodar vs. Alexander Bublik
- Doubles: Mensik/Carlos Alcaraz vs. Bublik/Taylor Fritz
That’s three singles matches plus one doubles match to close out the day. Exact court times for each match aren’t specified in what’s confirmed so far, so check the official Laver Cup schedule if you need precise start times.
Two players are doing double duty
Mensik and Bublik each play twice on Day 1 — once in singles, once in the doubles pairing that closes the session. That’s a heavy workload to open the weekend for both of them.
A notable first meeting
Jodar vs. Bublik is a matchup worth watching beyond the result: it’s the first time the two have played each other, and both are making their Laver Cup debuts. Nakashima also enters his match against Mensik with momentum, coming off a 12-3 summer run that included a final in Montreal and a semifinal in Cincinnati.
Since schedules and any late changes can shift close to match time, it’s worth double-checking the official page before you plan your viewing around a specific match.
What does Team Europe choosing to pick their lineup first on Saturday and second on Sunday mean for the rest of the weekend?
As the host team for Laver Cup 2026, Team Europe got to choose whether they’d pick their lineup first or second on each remaining day of the event. They’ve opted to go first on Saturday and second on Sunday.
What “picking first” and “picking second” actually means
Based on that choice, here’s how the rest of the weekend is set up:
- Saturday: Team Europe selects its lineup before Team World does.
- Sunday: Team World selects first, and Team Europe picks after seeing what World has put forward.
The practical effect on the weekend
The main thing this changes is the order in which each team commits to its matchups on a given day — not anything about Friday’s Day 1 matches, which were already set. On Saturday, Europe locks in its choices first; on Sunday, that order flips, and Europe gets to respond to Team World’s picks instead of leading.
What’s still unclear
The source doesn’t go into further detail on the strategic mechanics behind the lineup-selection process itself, so it’s not confirmed exactly how each captain will use that pick order. As Saturday and Sunday lineups are announced, it’s worth checking Laver Cup’s official channels for the actual matchups that result.
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