Godsick spoke ahead of the seventh edition of the Laver Cup on Friday, explaining why a mixed-gender iteration wasn’t on the agenda. “Look, there already exists the Hopman Cup. I don’t know what shape and form or when it actually takes place now, but there is an event, I think it’s now in the spring or in the summer, it used to be in January before the Australian Open, which combines men and women,” he said.

“The format is very important in this one and we spent a lot of time before we started, making sure, we tried to get it right. We didn’t know it would be as successful and it would sort of hit and stick as well as it did, but I think all of a sudden if we change this and added women to it, it would sort of be like the Hopman Cup that kind of exists already.”