World No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz delivered a pair of beautiful performances Sunday as Staff Europe accomplished a late comeback to defeat Staff World 13-11 on the Laver Cup.
Getting into the match, the Spaniard was below immense stress after his teammates, Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev, suffered losses to Staff World’s Ben Shelton and Taylor Fritz, respectively, earlier within the weekend. When Shelton put away Medvedev, Staff World was a win away from capturing its third consecutive Laver Cup trophy.
Nevertheless, Alcaraz put Staff Europe on his again to defeat Fritz 6-2, 7-5 in a winner-takes-all singles match to present his continent its first Laver Cup since 2021. The win got here after Alcaraz and his Norwegian teammate, Casper Ruud, secured a doubles win over Shelton and Frances Tiafoe earlier within the day. Zverev additionally performed a key position by beating Tiafoe in a nail-biting singles match to maintain Staff Europe afloat.
By scoring eight of Staff Europe’s 13 factors, Alcaraz set a brand new report on the Laver Cup for many factors by a person participant, surpassing the earlier report set by Roger Federer (seven in 2017).
