Francisco cerúndo him was crowned champion of the laver cup as part of the rest of the world By winning for a global result from 15 to 9 to Europe, which counted among its ranks with the world number one, The Spanish Carlos Alcaraz.
It was the third conquest of the rest of the world in this contest that has been held since 2017 and The Argentine, number 21 of the ranking, made his contribution to win the Danish Holger Rune (11th) by 6-3 and 7-6 (5) in a match that delivered two points and served his own to anticipate on the global score by 5 to 3.
The next day, Ceru had the opportunity to decree the triumph of the rest of the world but ran into an infallible alcaraz that valed him 6-2 and 6-1. It was then the American Taylor Fritz (5th) who completed the victory later by imposing himself against German Alexander Zverev (3rd) by 6-3 and 7-6 (4) and unleashing the collective celebration of the team Capitaneado by Andre Agassi.
A sympathetic curiosity: at the time of celebrating with Fritz, all team members went to hug him to the center of the court and, with the already formed round, Cerúndo began to jump as in a classic Argentine celebration, but no one followed the step and he tried two jumps.
This was the third participation of closing it in the laver. Last year he gave his first point to defeat the Norwegian Casper Rudd by double 6-4, although the Europeans ended up overcoming by 13 to 11. While in 2023 he also won his game, 6-3 and 7-5 against the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich in what was “win” final of the rest of the world by 13 to 2. The other Argentine to participate in this competition was Diego Schwartzman, with a three -party brand in three games between the 2018, 2021 and 2022 editions.
The rest of the world was made up of the Australian Alex de Miñaur (8th), Brazilian Joao Fonseca (42º) and Americans Alex Michelsen (32º) and Reilly Opelka (62º), in addition to closing it and Fritz. On the other side, captained by the French Yannick Noah, played Alcaraz, Zverev, Rune, the Norwegian Casper Rudd (12th), the Czech Jakub Mensik (17º) and the Italian Flavio Cobolli (25º).
This edition was held at the San Francisco Chase Center, where the Golden State Warriors of the NBA are usually local. The next one will be in London.
