Federer's final match set for 3:20pm ET at Laver Cup on TSN5

Roger Federer will take to the court for one last professional match on Friday as he teams up with Rafael Nadal in doubles action at the Laver Cup.

Federer and Nadal, who have 42 major titles between them, will represent Team Europe against the Team World duo of Frances Tiafoe and Jack Sock.

Watch the match LIVE on TSN5, TSN.ca and the TSN App as part of the Laver Cup evening draw starting at roughly 3:20pm ET/12:20 pm PT. The match will be played after the conclusion of Andy Murray's match with Alex de Minaur, which begins the evening session at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT.

“I’m not sure if I can handle it all. But I’ll try,” the 41-year-old Federer said Thursday about his sure-to-be-emotional on-court farewell after 20 major championships, a total of 103 tournament titles and hundreds of weeks at No. 1 across nearly a quarter of a century as a professional tennis player.

“Sitting here,” Federer said at a team news conference, with Nadal, who is 36, to his left, and Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, both 35, a couple of seats down to his right, “it feels good that I go first from the guys. It feels right.”

Federer is ending his playing days following a series of operations on his right knee. He hasn’t competed since a quarterfinal loss at Wimbledon to Hubert Hurkacz in July 2021.

In February of this year, when word emerged that Federer would be in London this week, he said Nadal messaged him suggesting they play doubles together again. They teamed up to win a doubles match during the first Laver Cup in 2017.

“I saw him playing on TV before I arrived on tour. I saw him having success on TV, and then (we were) able to create an amazing rivalry together. And on the other hand, something that probably we are very proud of is having