Carlos Alcaraz saved two match points to beat Taylor Fritz on Saturday and give Europe a 7-5 lead over Team World going into the final day of the Laver Cup tennis tournament.<\/p>\n
Team World<\/a> had overturned a 3-1 overnight deficit in the first two matches of the day at London’s O2 Arena as all three singles matches went to a deciding tie-break.<\/p>\n Learner Tien beat<\/a> Flavio Cobolli<\/a> before French and US Open champion Alexander Zverev<\/a> lost out<\/a> to Alex De Minaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alcaraz<\/a> was beaten by Fritz<\/a> in last year’s Laver Cup as Team World stormed to victory in San Francisco.<\/p>\n The Spaniard exacted his revenge but was pushed all the way before edging a classic 6-3, 4-6, 13-11<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Two great and tough losses today and obviously I was thinking a little bit about last year, (when) we lost every match on Saturday,” said Alcaraz.<\/p>\n “Coming into the match, I was trying not to let it happen again. So I was kind of nervous at the beginning, I’m not going to lie. But really happy that I took the win at the end.”<\/p>\n Zverev teamed up with Casper Ruud<\/a> to give Europe<\/a> the advantage heading into Sunday with a 6-4, 7-6 (7)<\/a> doubles victory over Alexander Bublik<\/a> and Brandon Nakashima<\/a> in the final match of the day.<\/p>\n Each match on Sunday is worth three points with the first side to 13 the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz saved two match points to beat Taylor Fritz on Saturday and give Europe a 7-5 lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-906976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}