The Spaniard defeated Fritz in the final match, Borg’s team winning 13 to 11 over McEnroe’s Rest of the World
An exciting Carlos Alcaraz delivers the victory to Europe 13-11 in the seventh edition of the Laver Cup, the exhibition signed by Roger Federer held this year in Berlin. The Spaniard defeated Taylor Fritz in the decisive match (6-2 7-5 score), leaving the rest of the World high and dry, coming one step away from a third victory after his part of the event. The team captained by McEnroe had finished the second day in front, but Alcaraz and Zverev, the two spearheads of Europe, turned the situation around.
THE WAR
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First the phenom from Murcia, together with Casper Ruud, had defeated Shelton and Tiafoe in the opening doubles of the third day and decided (6-2 7-6), and then things got worse the Borg team is complicated again due to an unexpected loss. stop (the second in a row) of Daniil Medvedev, who lost in three sets (6-7 7-5 10-7) to Ben Shelton. The Russian was very nervous, so much so that he threw a racket into the stands. At that time, to win, Europe needed two victories, which arrived quickly. Zverev won the world number only in the real tiebreak and comeback against Tiafoe (6-7 7-5 10-5), then Alcaraz finished the “job” against Fritz, playing among other things a screaming first set, with shots that the world number three had not come off the ropes for months and that put Jannik Sinner on guard, already in Beijing and ready for to challenge his great rival in the Chinese ATP 500 which starts next week.
2024-09-22 21:53:10
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