Article by David Istrate – published Monday, September 22, 2025, 09:37 / Updated Monday, September 22, 2025 09:54
The world's team won for the third time Laver Cup, after it won 15-9 in front of Europe. On the last day, each formation won 2 victories, and this was enough for non-European to triumph in San Francisco, the city on the western coast of the United States.
On the 2nd day Laver Cup, the world team returned from 1-3 to 9-3, thanks to the 4 victories obtained by the athletes led by Andre Agassi and Pat Rafter. As a result, they needed only 2 favorable results to award their title.
Carlos Alcaraz won two wins, but Taylor Fritz brought the title for the World Team
The first match of the last day of Laver Cup was that of Carlos Alcaraz/Casper Ruud and Alex Michelsen/Reilly Opelka. The inaugural set was balanced, but the second sequence was clearly dominated by the Spanish-norvegian pair, who defeated 7-6 (4), 6-1 and took the general score to 6-9.
Following the confrontation between Jakub Mensik (20 years, 17 ATP) and Alex de Minaur (26 years, 8 ATP), in which the superior experience of the Australian spoke. It won 6-3, 6-4 and took the general score to 12-6 for the world team, which needed only one victory.
However, Carlos Alcaraz, the world leader, who did not make the mistakes of day 2, when he was defeated by Taylor Fritz, entered the field. The 22-year-old tennis player dominated Argentine Francisco Cerundolo (27 years, 21 ATP), score 6-2, 6-1, and kept the chances of Europe: 9-12.
The one who could bring the equalization and send the decisive confrontation was Alexander Zverev (28 years old), the world number 3. But Taylor Fritz, after winning in front of Alcaraz, continued to impress, passed 6-3, 7-6 (4) by the opponent in Germany and brought the 3rd title of the world team, 15-9, after those obtained in 2022 and 2023.
“I simply see these boys on the bench, enthusiastically and see a legend of sport like Andre (no agassi) jumping from the chair and encouraging me, it is impossible not to be motivated and to give everything I have,” said Fritz, quoted byptour.com.
“We will have a fun evening. We will definitely open some champagne in the locker room in a few minutes“Added the American.
After 8 editions of Laver Cup, the score is 5-3 for the Europe team. In 2026, the competition will return to Europe and will be hosted by London in the O2 Arena.
