1-1: Turn for Jódar and Alcaraz with a draw in the Laver Cup after the first European defeat
turn for Rafa Jodar and Carlos Alcaraz with tables on the scoreboard Laver Cup (1-1) after the first two individual matches on hard court in the O2 Arena London (England).
The Kazakh Alexander Bublika member of the rest of the world team, will be the rival of the two Spanish tennis players from the European team this afternoon: he will play in singles against the Madrid player (8:00 p.m.) and then he will play the double against the Murcian, who will be paired with Jakub Mensik. Bublik will play alongside the American Taylor Fritz.
The Norwegian Casper Ruud won the first point for Europe (1-0) by beating the Argentine Francisco Cerúndolo (6-7, 6-4 and 10-8 in the third set supertiebreak).
Mensik was about to make the second comeback of the day, but fell short in the tiebreaker and the American Brandon Nakashima equalized the match (1-1) after winning six of the last seven points of the match: the 4-6 against turned it into a 10-7 in favor for a final result of 6-1, 3-6 and 10-7.
