Team Europe’s Worst Performance: Rest of the World Dominates the Making Cup

Sep 24, 2023, 6:24 p.m. ET

A new edition of the Making Cupand this tournament did not go unnoticed: It was confirmed that it was the worst performance in the history of Team Europe, who fell for the second consecutive year. In this edition, the score was 13-2 for Rest of the World.

Of the nine games that had to be played before meeting the team that was going to become champion, Bjorn Borg’s team won one: Casper Ruud beats Tommy Paul 7-6 (6) and 6-2, in an hour and a half of play, during the second day of the competition. In this way, he added two points.

Europe closed its worst participation in the history of the Laver Cup. Getty

This complicated moment that Europe is experiencing in the competition can be justified and/or explained when the makeup of this team is compared to those of previous years, where it was full of stars.

2017: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Marin Cilic, Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev y Tomas Berdych (five Top 10).

2018: Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev, Grigor Dimitrov, David Goffin y Kyle Edmund (four Top 10).

2019: Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Fabio Fognini (five Top 10).

2021: Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Alexander Zverev, Andrey Rublev, Matteo Berrettini and Casper Ruud (all Top 10).

2022: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruud.

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In this 2023, There were only two tennis players among the 10 best players in the world: Andrey Rublev and Casper Ruud. On the other hand, Holger Rune and Stefanos Tsitsipas, two in the Top 10, dropped out before the start of the competition.

However, even though Rest of the World did not carry any Top Ten in its ranks, it proved to be more than Europe. The final results of the competition were:

Ben Shelton a Arthur Son: 7-6 (4) y 6-1

Francisco Cerúndolo to Davidovich Fokina: 6-3 and 7-5

Happy Auger-Also to Gael Monfils: 6-4 and 6-3

Tommy Paul – Frances Tiafoe and Arthur Son – Andrey Rublev: 3-6, 6-4 and 10-6

Taylor Fritz a Andrey Rublev: 6-2 y 7-6 (3)

Casper Ruud a Tommy Paul: 7-6 (6) y 6-2

Frances Tiafoe Hubert Hurkacz: 7-5 and 6-3

Felix Auger-Aliassime – Ben Shelton a Hubert Hurkacz – Gael Monfils: 7-5 and 6-4

Ben Shelton – Frances Tiafoe is Hubert Hurkacz – Andrey Rublev: 7-6 (4) and 7-6 (5)

2023-09-24 22:24:00
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