May. 29, 2024 04:11 AM EST

Yannick Noah To Succeed Bjorn Borg As The Captain Of Team Europe In The Laver Cup

FILE - Yannick Noah of France, waves to the crowd at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, June 5, 1983, after defeating Sweden's Mats Wilander to win the French Open men's singles tennis title. Yannick Noah, the 1983 French Open champion, will take over as captain of Team Europe in the Laver Cup in 2025, replacing Bjorn Borg. The event announced Noah’s position Wednesday May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacques Langevin, File) Jacques Langevin, ASSOCIATED PRESS
FILE - Yannick Noah of France, waves to the crowd at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, June 5, 1983, after defeating Sweden's Mats Wilander to win the French Open men's singles tennis title. Yannick Noah, the 1983 French Open champion, will take over as captain of Team Europe in the Laver Cup in 2025, replacing Bjorn Borg. The event announced Noah’s position Wednesday May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacques Langevin, File)
FILE - Former French tennis player Yannick Noah attends the inauguration of a fresco retracing his life, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his victory at Roland Garros in 1983, on day one of the Roland-Garros Open tennis tournament in Paris, May 28, 2023. Yannick Noah, the 1983 French Open champion, will take over as captain of Team Europe in the Laver Cup in 2025, replacing Bjorn Borg. The event announced Noah’s position Wednesday May 29, 2024. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/Pool via AP, File)
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PARIS (AP) — Yannick Noah, the 1983 French Open champion, will become captain of Team Europe in the Laver Cup in 2025, taking over for Bjorn Borg.

The event announced Noah's position Wednesday. Last week, Andre Agassi was named captain of Team World, also beginning next year. Agassi replaced John McEnroe.

Noah is the last man from France to win a Grand Slam singles title and reached a career-best No. 3 in the ATP rankings in 1986. He later was his country's Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup captain, leading both teams to championships.

He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005.

McEnroe and Borg have been the captains since the first edition of the Laver Cup in 2017 and will lead their teams at this year's edition in Berlin on Sept. 20-22.

The 2025 Laver Cup will be held in San Francisco.

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