The hamburger won on Saturday night in Boston against the American John Isner with 7: 6 (7: 5), 6: 7 (6: 8) and 10: 5. Thus Zverev secured the Team Europe first a 7: 1 lead compared to the team world. The day before, the 24-year-old had lost with the Italian Matteo Berrettini against Isner and Denis Shapovalov (Canada) with 6: 4, 6: 7 (2: 7) and 1:10.
In the first game of the second day, Stefanos TsitsiPas had won from Greece with 6: 3 and 6: 4 against the Australian Nick Kyrgios and the leadership of the European selection to 5: 1 expanded. In the evening session, US Open winner Daniil Medvedev swept from Russia the Canadian Denis Shapovalov in 75 minutes with 6: 4, 6: 0 from the square. At the end of the day then TsitsiPas and the Russian Andrej Raubljov in double the leadership of their team with a 6: 7 (8:10), 6: 3, 10: 4 against Isner and Kyrgios further out.
Europe leads 11: 1
Ultimately, Europeans decided to meet every four matches on Saturday. The team around the German Olympic champion leads to the world selection with 11: 1 before the end of the end on Sunday in Boston.
Both teams each consist of six professionals and a substitute. At each of the three days three single and a double take place. On Friday a victory is worth a point, on Saturday there are two counters per game and on Sunday three. Who has collected a total of 13 out of 24 points, wins the Laver Cup. In the previous year, the event had failed because of the Corona pandemic. In 2019, the team triumphed from Europe, ZVEREV won the decisive counters with the victory in the individual over Canadian Milos Raonic.
With Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, the three long-standing superstars of the industry are missing this year due to injury or exhaustion.
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