{"id":149308,"date":"2025-09-20T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149308\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T13:06:07","slug":"laver-cup-2025-carlos-alcaraz-helps-team-europe-make-winning-start-over-team-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149308\/","title":{"rendered":"Laver Cup 2025: Carlos Alcaraz helps Team Europe make winning start over Team World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Six-time major champion Alcaraz said playing in the doubles allowed him to show his trademark flare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it [doubles] gives you more opportunities to make great shots, great volleys,&#8221; the 22-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But doubles is not just about one player. It was a team [effort] with a great player in Jakub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He has great skills and made me comfortable on the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz and Mensik did not face a break point against American pair Fritz and Michelsen, with Alcaraz showing good hands at the net and Mensik bringing power from the baseline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcaraz has lost just six of his 67 matches on the ATP Tour this year, winning seven titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Match victories on the opening day of the Laver Cup are worth one point each, with two points awarded for wins on day two and three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winners are the first side to reach 13 points from the 24 available across the three-day tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Europe have won five of the seven editions of the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six-time major champion Alcaraz said playing in the doubles allowed him to show his trademark flare. &#8220;I think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-149308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}