It's been almost a year since Coco Gauff urged Roger Federer to establish a women's Laver Cup. The two-time Grand Slam champion made her voice heard on social media last January following her quarter-final exit at the Australian Open. The Laver Cup is an annual event which sees Team Europe face off against Team World, with only men currently invited to take part.

The tournament is owned by the Swiss icon, who also helped create the format before it was introduced to the tennis calendar in 2017. At the time of her request, Gauff was one of four American players situated in the top 10 of the WTA rankings. Joined by Jessica Pegula, now-reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys and Emma Navarro, the latter has since dropped to 15th in the rankings, while Amanda Anisimova has risen to fourth after reaching the finals of Wimbledon and the US Open last year.

She took to Instagram last year to post an image of the American quartet while her caption read: "USA vs World Laver Cup????" However, Gauff's plea has so far fallen on deaf ears, as last September's Laver Cup event continued to feature just male players and saw Team World take the victory.

It remains to be seen whether Gauff's wishes will come to fruition, but the conversation surrounding an all-women Laver Cup has already been had. Todd Godsick, who worked with Federer to create the tournament, said in 2024 that patience will need to be had regarding venturing the Laver Cup into a female format and expressed hope that the idea can be realised in the future.

He said: "It will take a little time to think about a fitting format for a tournament with women. First of all, we want to reach our full potential with the Laver Cup for men, then we will look at various possibilities. I think we would have to name and organise it differently, but the format works. Hopefully we can come up with something in the future.

"It is our aim to be like the Ryder Cup in golf, but the Ryder Cup is 90 years ahead of us." Suggestions have been made that female players can take part in the Laver Cup as it is and transform it into a mixed-gender event, but that idea was quickly shut down by Godsick.

"Look, there already exists the Hopman Cup," he explained. "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.

"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."