Carlos Alcaraz gives air to Europe in the Wash CupThe Spanish tennis player achieved the first victory of his career in this tournament after defeat to the American Ben Shelton (6-4 and 6-4) and managed to equalize the overall result between Europe and the rest of the world, with a tie (4-4) in the standings.
SO, Carlos Alcaraz is not failing Europe alone and takes a vital victory after a straight-set victory that gives the team coached by Björn Borg a breath of fresh air. Alcaraz had fallen in doubles on Friday, partnering with Alexander Zverevbut his main interest was this individual duel against Ben Shelton.
The one from El Palmar was attentive to the vital moments of the match to save the five balls to break which he faced, and broke his opponent’s serve twice, once in each set, to hand the American his first defeat in the history of the competition.
In almost two hours, Alcaraz defeated the American, who kept his very powerful serve, sometimes up to 228 km/h, but Alcaraz played better and especially knew how to win the key games of each set. In the first set, he broke Shelton’s serve in the sixth game, enough to make it 6-4 while defending his serve.
The same thing happened in the second set, ending with the same score, valid for Alcaraz pull the european team car of this Laver Cup and maintain equality in a very long weekend in this competition.
That same Saturday, four more points will be at stake with the matches between Alexander Zverev and the American Taylor Fritz and between the duo formed by the Norwegian Casper Ruud and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and the duo composed of Shelton and the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo. The first team to reach 13 points will win the Laver Cup.
