The Laver Cup completed it’s second successful event in Chicago this year as Europe defended their title against the Rest of the World.
However, questions hang over the future of the tournament as the exhibition event takes place towards the end of the season.
Several players have complained over the last month of the tennis schedule already being too congested.
And Carbonell believes the Laver Cup may die when 37-year-old Federer, who helped to create the tournament, retires.
“What’s Laver Cup? Laver Cup is nothing,” Carbonell said.
“It’s a format that has success because its ultimate player competes in it, and wherever Federer goes, you have a packed crowd.
“But when he retires… What value does it have? Who will go to an exhibition?
“Without points, only for money… The ones who lived for tennis know that exhibition tournaments last less.”
Federer plans to continue either competing or coaching at the Laver Cup once he calls time on his professional career.
But with huge Davis Cup reforms coming into affect next year, coupled with the new ATP Cup starting in 2020, the hectic calendar will soon become too much for some players.
“The ATP Cup that takes place in Australia, we will see, but I think the new Davis Cup has a great format,” Carbonell added.
“You have so many interests involved that anything can happen.
“I believe, and I know it because I know Galo Blanco, Albert Costa and [Gerard] Pique, that they will give everything, but I believe that the first years it will not be good but it will definitely end being an important success.”
Federer is still mulling over his 2019 plans and has hinted he could make a clay return for the first time in four years.
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