{"id":153226,"date":"2025-09-22T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153226\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:05:07","slug":"laver-cup-taylor-fritz-secures-trophy-for-team-world-against-team-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/153226\/","title":{"rendered":"Laver Cup: Taylor Fritz secures trophy for Team World against Team Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspired by Andre Agassi&#8217;s livewire courtside presence, Taylor Fritz held his nerve to beat Alexander Zverev and complete a 15-9 victory for Team World against Team Europe in the Laver Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team World led 12-9 going into the penultimate tie between the American and German.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With three points for a win, world number three Zverev could have levelled the match, but fifth-ranked Fritz won 6-3 7-6 (7-4) at the event in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the team environment and encouragement from captain and compatriot Agassi had inspired him to the title-clinching victory, and promised there would be big celebrations ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re going to have a fun night. We&#8217;re definitely popping champagne in the locker room in a few minutes,&#8221; said Fritz, who beat world number one Carlos Alcaraz on Saturday when Team World built a 9-3 overnight lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The energy from the team&#8230; the moments of winning feel so much better and the moments of losing feel so much worse. You&#8217;re doing it for all these guys. It fires me up so much. I always feel I play my best tennis in team environments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The victory gave Team World a third win in the eight editions of the Laver Cup following their victories in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired by Andre Agassi&#8217;s livewire courtside presence, Taylor Fritz held his nerve to beat Alexander Zverev and complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-153226","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\/153226","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=153226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}