Fritz Gets Alcaraz Revenge On Route To Laver Cup Success

The 2025 Laver Cup has again gifted global tennis fans some incredible moments and headlines over the course of the last few days and in Friday's opening clashes it looked like Team Europe may have in fact run away with the trophy as they had helped themselves to a 3-1 lead in San Francisco's Chase Center as we went into the games to be held on Saturday.

Under the inspired charge of the livewire courtside presence that was eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi, Team World rallied in ridiculous fashion to completely turn the tide of the tournament in their favour as with four straight victories they established a 9-3 second day lead. The overriding highlight of the action saw American Taylor Fritz stun world number one Carlos Alcaraz with a comfortable and comprehensive 6-3 6-2 win and very few in attendance had seen that result and performance coming. Prior to this meeting Fritz had not beaten the Spaniard in their last three meetings.

Alcaraz had been on a 13 match winning streak and was featuring in his first singles match since landing his sixth career Grand Slam earlier this month when he lifted the US Open to add it to the tally of his incredible successes so far, but Fritz was simply stronger and sharper from the baseline and just over powered his opponent and get his own revenge on Alcaraz who lifted the Laver Cup for Team Europe in last year's event and many tennis fans with a VPN would have been eagerly watching those particular ties previously unfold.

Things were about to get better for 27 year old California native Fritz as Sunday's action saw him face of against 28 year old German Alexander Zverev, and in holding his nerve against the world number three, fifth ranked Fritz took a 6-3 7-6 (7-4) victory to take Team World to a 15-9 overall win.

Europe's dominance in the tournament continues with them having lifted five of the last eight editions of the Laver Cup, but with Agassi inspiring the team to pick up their third in the last eight, they will have renewed confidence and optimism that they can get back to a run of wins having last won back in 2022 and 2023. Of course, it is again all change for the next edition of the Laver Cup as it back to the United Kingdom for an O2 Arena meeting between 25-27 September 2026 where they will do battle on the court once again for Atlantic Ocean bragging rights.

Team World - Captain Andre Agassi, Vice Captain Pat Rafter Taylor Fritz, Alex de Minaur, Francisco Cerundolo, Alex Michelsen, Joao Fonseca, Reilly Opelka, Jensen Brooksby

Team Europe - Captain Yannick Noah, Vice Captain Tim Henman Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, Holger Rune, Casper Ruud, Jakub Mensik, Flavio Cobolli, Tomas Machac