Europe is ahead in the Laver Cup

After the first three individual matches, the defending champions were ahead 3-0 against Team Welt. First, the Norwegian Casper Ruud defeated the American Reilly Opelka 6:3, 7:6 (7:4). Afterwards, Berrettini defeated the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in a high-class game at times in the champions tiebreak with 6:7 (3:7), 7:5, 10:8. The game at Boston's TD Garden lasted 2:52 hours. In addition, the Russian Andrey Rublev defeated the Argentine Diego Schwartzman 4:6, 6:3 and 11:9 in the match tiebreak.

Afterwards, despite winning the first set, Berrettini and Alexander Zverev had to admit defeat in doubles to the Americans John Isner and Denis Shapovalov (Canada) 6:4, 6:7 (2:7) and (1:10). With the 3-1 win, the Europeans are attempting their fourth victory in the fourth edition of the duel against Team World. Europe highly favored Both teams consist of six professionals and one substitute. There will be three singles and one doubles event on each of the three days. On Friday a win is worth one point, on Saturday there are two points per game and on Sunday three points. Whoever collects a total of 13 out of 24 points wins the Laver Cup. Last year the event was canceled due to the corona pandemic. In 2019, the team from Europe triumphed, Zverev took the decisive points with his singles victory over Canadian Milos Raonic.

Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the industry's three long-time superstars, are missing this year due to injuries or exhaustion. Federer was at least present as a spectator in the TD Garden on Friday and was cheered on by the spectators.

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Europe is ahead in the Laver Cup

Europe's tennis professionals got off to an (almost) perfect start at the Laver Cup. After the first day, the defending champions lead against Team Welt 3-1.

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