Laver Cup, Francisco Cerundolo leads Rest of World over Europe

Laver Cup, Francisco Cerundolo leads Rest of the World over Europe'Europe

At the Uber Arena in Berlin, in the first singles match of the 2024 Laver Cup, Argentine Francisco Cerundolo, world number 31, beat Norwegian Casper Ruud, number 9.

6-4 6-4 was the score in favor of the South American, who in one hour and 38 minutes of play put the Rest of the World team 1-0 ahead of the team from Europe.

In the first set Ruud has two break points at 2-1 in his favor but does not take advantage of them, è Cerundolo instead to take advantage of the only chance in his favor at 3-3 and won the partial at the second set point.

The Argentine immediately breaks serve from the Norwegian in the first game of the second set and on his serve he concedes nothing to his opponent, indeed, he makes another break at 4-2.

When he serves for the match on 5-2 Cerundolo loses his serve for the first time but on 5-4 he manages to close the file.