{"id":173204,"date":"2025-09-22T04:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173204\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:25:04","slug":"taylor-fritz-names-the-player-he-would-absolutely-hate-to-play-at-the-laver-cup-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/173204\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz names the player he would &#8216;absolutely hate&#8217; to play at the Laver Cup this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Taylor Fritz is glad not to be playing this ATP player at the Laver Cup in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/shocked-carlos-alcaraz-reveals-what-he-said-to-taylor-fritz-straight-after-losing-to-him-at-the-laver-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fritz beat Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> for the first time to help a resurgent Team World on day two of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/laver-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The American number one was able to adapt best to the conditions in San Francisco, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/carlos-alcaraz-explains-what-he-found-annoying-about-his-loss-to-taylor-fritz-at-the-laver-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz was left annoyed against Fritz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/taylor-fritz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fritz<\/a> appears to be comfortable on the Laver Cup courts, he has revealed that there is one player he would hate to be up against.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236489591-1-1024x726.jpg\" alt=\"Laver Cup 2025 - Day 2\" \/>Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for Laver CupTaylor Fritz says he would \u2018absolutely hate\u2019 to play Francisco Cerundolo at the Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Fritz was part of one of four Team World wins on day two of the Laver Cup, as they now have a commanding lead heading into the final day of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Another one of those victors was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/francisco-cerundolo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francisco Cerundolo<\/a>, who Fritz has now admitted he would hate to play on the San Francisco courts.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if head-to-head\u2019s are as much of a factor at the Laver Cup, Fritz went on to speak about the conditions before mentioning Cerundolo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely don\u2019t think the head-to-heads go out the window on the team events,\u201d Fritz said in his post-match press conference. \u201cI mean, I think in this event a lot of times teams line up in a certain way. You match up how you want to match up. I would say those teams usually typically have the advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s definitely room for more weird things to happen, again, because I\u2019ll say just the conditions of the court, it\u2019s so slow. I would absolutely hate to play someone like Fran on this court. He generates so much pace off of a dead ball. He\u2019s so good from the back. He returns so well. He is an absolute nightmare to play in conditions like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it definitely favors some people more than others, but just the team atmosphere definitely also brings out a lot of energy in a lot of people. I feel like I\u2019ve always played great tennis at Laver Cup, Davis Cup, whatever team event, United Cup, whatever team event I play. It\u2019s just fun to, you know, get pumped up with your team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francisco Cerundolo\u2019s impressive record in the Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Cerundolo beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/holger-rune\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Holger Rune<\/a> in straight sets in his first match at the Laver Cup this year, and it appears that it is not just the San Francisco conditions that he benefits from.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Argentine\u2019s third consecutive year representing Team World at the Laver Cup, and he has won all of his three matches in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Cerundolo is the only player to have a 100% record in the Laver Cup after playing more than one match.<\/p>\n<p>YearFrancisco Cerundolo\u2019s Result2023Cerundolo beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, 6-3 7-52024Cerundolo beat Casper Ruud, 6-4 6-42025Cerundolo beat Holger Rune, 6-3 7-6(5)<\/p>\n<p>Cerundolo will now face his toughest test yet at the Laver Cup, as he has been selected to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alcaraz<\/a> on the final day.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a potentially crucial match in the competition, with Team World needing two wins to secure Laver Cup victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Fritz is glad not to be playing this ATP player at the Laver Cup in San Francisco.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,15221,51059,99,2072,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-173204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-francisco-cerundolo","10":"tag-laver-cup","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-taylor-fritz","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}