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It was a historic and emotional weekend for tennis followers world wide. Within the fifth version of the Laver Cup, brainchild of Roger Federer, the Swiss Maestro himself stepped on court docket for the final time as a tennis skilled. Selecting the workforce competitors as his final stage, Federer gathered as a lot star energy as any of the 4 majors, placing up a workforce with himself, best rivals Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Murray, and the long run technology of males’s tennis in Stefanos Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud, Matteo Berrettini, and Cameron Norrie, led by Crew Captain Bjorn Borg.
Whereas it didn’t find yourself being the right farewell celebration, Federer loved his final moments earlier than retirement displaying the world not solely how a lot he loves tennis, but in addition how significant a relationship he constructed along with his friends over time. A teary Rafael Nadal mentioned that “a part of my life is leaving,” after the doubles match along with his best rival. The 2 giants of the sport went on to lose the match, 4-6 7-6(2) 11-9, regardless of having held a match level on Federer’s serve within the match tie-break.
Ultimately, Crew World additionally denied Federer a final trophy, getting back from 4-8 down on Sunday to win the match, 13-8. Unbelievable performances by Félix-Auger Aliassime within the doubles with American Jack Sock and in singles in opposition to Novak Djokovic gave Crew World a 10-8 lead. US Open semi-finalist Frances Tiafoe then pulled off the comeback of the match, saving 4 match factors en path to defeating World No. 6 Stefanos Tsitsipas 1-6, 7-6(11), 10-8, and sealing the victory for John McEnroe’s workforce for the primary time.
Felix Auger-Aliassime: workforce participant
The highest Canadian in singles stored breaking new floor in his profession and for Canadian tennis throughout the Laver Cup. Auger-Aliassime has been profitable in all workforce competitions he performed this yr, successful the ATP Cup in January and serving to Crew Canada introduced by Sobeys to qualify for the Davis Cup quarterfinals which happen in Malaga in November.
The World No. 13 additionally turned the primary Canadian participant to beat Novak Djokovic, choosing up his second win over a member of the Huge Three, having additionally overwhelmed Roger Federer in Halle in 2021.
Gaby Dabrowski on a roll
Doubles specialist Gaby Dabrowski stored her nice kind, successful the Toray Pan Pacific Tennis Championships in Tokyo, this time partnering again up with Giuliana Olmos because the no. 2 seeded workforce. It’s her second title and eighth match-win in a row, not dropping a set in any of these.
The WTA 500 trophy can be the doubles World No. 8’s third title of the season, having additionally been topped champion in Madrid earlier this yr with Olmos.
Watch this week: Shapovalov again in competitors
Denis Shapovalov is again in motion this week on the Eugene Korea Open Tennis Championships in Seoul because the fourth seed. Shapovalov’s final match was on the US Open, the place he was defeated within the third spherical by World No. 11 Andrey Rublev in an epic five-set match lasting 4 hours and eight minutes the place he led by two units to 1.
The left hander is seeking to bounce again from a flat interval in his profession, having final reached a quarterfinal at Rome in Might, after he defeated Rafael Nadal for simply the second time in six conferences.
The match is again in Seoul for the primary time since 1996, and options two High 10 gamers: No. 2 Casper Ruud and No. 8 Cameron Norrie.
Underneath the Radar
On the ATP Challenger Tour this week, Alexis Galarneau will get again to work on the LTP Males’s Open in Charleston after a crushing first-round loss to Nick Chappell within the Tennis Ohio Championships, and can face high seeded Jordan Thompson within the first spherical. Thompson is coming off an excellent week additionally in Columbus, having claimed the title with out dropping a set, together with a victory over Granby champion Gabriel Diallo.
Gabriel Diallo, who made his Davis Cup debut earlier this month had a profitable week having reached the quarterfinals in Ohio after a marathon 75, 67(6), 75 win in opposition to Nice Britain’s Aidan McHugh in three hours, 38 minutes.
