Carlos Alcaraz debuts with defeat in the Laver Cup

Madrid., The Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz lost this Friday in his debut in the Laver Cup, a tournament associated with the ATP that measures Europe against the Rest of the World, forming doubles with the German Alexander Zverev, a point that marked 2-2 after the first day .

After contributing to Spain’s ticket to the Final 8 of the Davis Cup, the Murcian is enjoying his first experience in this tournament, with a seventh edition being held in Berlin. However, Alcaraz could not add first for Europe, a team that seeks revenge after losing the last two Cups, surpassed by the American pair of Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton.

The Spaniard went from less to more, but the first set was decided in the tie-break by 7-6(5), while the second set, equally even, left the break in Zverev’s serve that sentenced Shelton around midnight. Thus, the opening day of the Laver Cup closed with 2-2, only four of the 24 points that will be at stake until Sunday.

This Friday, three individual matches were also played, with the European points of the Greek Stéfanos Tsitsipas and the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov against the Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (6-1, 6-4) and the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo (7-6(4, 7- 6(2). Meanwhile, the Argentine Francisco Cerúndolo defeated the Norwegian Casper Ruud (6-4, 6-4).