14 to 1. The final score says a lot about the relentless domination of the European team in the fourth edition of the Laver Cup. Just like the fact that three posters (Zverev – Auger-Aliassime, Medvedev – Schwartzman, Tsitsipas – Isner) had to be deprogrammed because they had become useless.
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On Sunday, the rest of the world could no longer catch up after the success of the Russian-German pair Andrey Rublev-Alexander Zverev over the American-Canadian duo Reilly Opelka-Denis Shapovalov (6-2, 6-7 [4], 10-3 in super tie-break) at TD Garden in Boston, home of the Celtics.
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In the absence of the historic trio Roger Federer (nevertheless present in the stands) – Rafal Nadal – Novak Djokovic, Europe relied on four of the top five in the world, the Russian Daniil Medvedev, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas as well as Zverev and Rublev. The only point won by the rest of the world was on Friday by the Isner-Shapovalov duo against the Berrettini-Zverev duo.
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