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NEW YORK -- Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who have faced each other in eight major finals, plan to team up as doubles partners next year during the inaugural Laver Cup.With a combined 31 Grand Slam titles, Federer and Nadal have committed to the team event, which attempts to create a tennis version of golfs Ryder Cup.Named for Australian great Rod Laver, the competition pitting a squad of European mens players against a group from the rest of the world was first announced in January. On Wednesday, organizers said the first edition would be held in Prague on Sept. 22-24, 2017, indoors at the O2 Arena.Former rivals Bjorn Borg of Sweden (Europe) and John McEnroe of the U.S. (World team) will serve as captains for the first three years.Laver, Borg, McEnroe, Federer and Nadal -- accounting for 60 major singles titles -- gathered at a Manhattan hotel Wednesday for the announcements.The plan is for the Laver Cup to be held annually, except during Olympic years, two weeks after the U.S. Open, with the location rotating. There will be six men on each team: four based on the rankings after Wimbledon, and two captains picks announced after the U.S. Open.There will be 12 matches played over three days (nine singles and three doubles), with the number of points awarded for victories increasing each day. Each player will take the court once or twice for singles, with at least four of the six taking part in doubles.All the matches will be best-of-three, but if the first two sets are split, they will go to a 10-point tiebreaker.Borg hopes that the other half of the Big Four -- the current top two men in the rankings, Serbias Novak Djokovic and Britains Andy Murray -- will join Switzerlands Federer and Spains Nadal on the Europe team. McEnroe acknowledged that for now at least, his World squad would be the heavy underdog, though a lot can happen in just over a year.Beyond the Big Four, Europe boasts 13 of the current top 15 players in the mens rankings. And active European players have combined for 49 Grand Slam titles; for the rest of the world, its just one, by Argentinas Juan Martin del Potro.Federers management company, TEAM8; Brazilian businessman Jorge Paulo Lemann, a former Davis Cup player; and Tennis Australia partnered to create the Laver Cup.Keith Hernandez Mets Jersey . 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"It just felt like it was my time to move on," she said in a phone interview from her hometown of Burlington, Ont.DUBAI -- Two years to the day after gaining his European Tour card, Matt Fitzpatrick won the DP World Tour Championship in dramatic fashion as Open champion Henrik Stenson clinched the Race to Dubai title.Tyrrell Hatton looked set to claim his second victory in the space of seven weeks after holing a bunker shot for par on the 17th to preserve a one-shot lead at Jumeirah Golf Estates.However, the 25-year-old then drove into the creek which runs the length of the par-five 18th and carded his only bogey of a closing 68 to open the door for Fitzpatrick in the group behind.The 22-year-old from Sheffield needed par to force a play-off or a birdie to win and duly got up and down from a greenside bunker to complete a 67 and claim the first prize of more than ￡1 million.It means the world, the Ryder Cup player said after becoming the youngest Englishman to win three times on the European Tour, eclipsing the record of six-time major winner Sir Nick Faldo.To win one of these Final Series events is really special. Words cant describe it. Its not going to sink in for a while. Its been a special year and then to end it like this with a win is amazing.Its two years to the day I got my card at the qualifying school. When you think about it, its crazy. Its all happened so fast. Now I feel this win gives me the confidence to push further and further and see what we can do next season.Hatton, who won the Dunhill Links Championship last month, admitted losing out in such a manner was a bitter pill to swallow but added: For me its been the best year of my life so I cant get too downbeat. Im sure hopefully in the future Ill take my next chance.If you told me at the start of the year I would finish fourth in the Race to Dubai I would have been surprised. Its been such a great year and Im very happy with that.South Africas Charl Schwartzel finished alone in third, with overnight leader Victor Dubuisson, Francesco Molinari, Soren Kjeldsen, Nicolas Colsaerts and Bernd Wiesberger tied fourth.Stensons share of ninth was more than enough to make certain of ending the yearr as European number one, the Swede carding a closing 65 which was matched by playing partner and defending champion Rory McIlroy.ddddddddddddMasters champion Danny Willett, who started the week 299,675 points behind Stenson, tied for 50th in the 60-man field after a closing 70. Swedens Alexander Noren, who was the other player capable of ending the season on top of the money list, was joint 23rd.Im very pleased to get my name on this trophy once again, said Stenson, who was the first man to win the Race to Dubai and FedEx Cup in the same season in 2013.Its been a great year, the best year of my career.Ive always thought it was going to be hard to top 2013, but I think Ive done that. Maybe not to the level of golf over six months, but certainly with the highlights of winning the Open, the Olympic [silver medal] and managing to win the Race to Dubai again.McIlroy was left to rue an opening 75, his only over-par score in the tournaments history, as he missed out on a fourth win of the season.If I had just shot something around level par, one under, I would have been right in the tournament, the world number two said.But these things happen and I played well for the remaining three days and at least redeemed myself a little bit.Willett had to settle for second in the money list for the second year running after struggling to rediscover top form following a winless Ryder Cup debut at Hazeltine.Its a disappointing four-week stretch that Ive just had, to end what still will be a pretty memorable year, he said.The golfs just not been good enough this last two months, maybe playing too much and trying to force the issue instead of just playing a limited amount and backing yourself to do well in the ones that you play in.I think the body and mind need a bit of a rest and hopefully I can come out fresh around a golf course that I quite like at Hong Kong [in December] and then have a good four or five-week break over Christmas. 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