Roger Federer has retired after the doubles match on the first day of competition at the 2022 Laver Cup, however, the Swiss legend is still present in the technical area of the European Team when entering the second day of competition. When Rafael Nadal also withdrew (but did not stay in London), Federer's encouragement and advice contributed to Team Europe having a good day's play against Team World.
After finishing the first 4 matches, the score was 2-2, but at the end of the second day, the score was 8-4, with great contributions from Matteo Berrettini and Novak Djokovic. The Serbian tennis player defeated Frances Tiafoe 6-1, 6-3 and then combined with Berrettini to beat the Alex de Minaur/ jack Sock 7-5, 6-2 in the doubles match.
Nole returned to action for the first time since July, when he won his 21st Grand Slam title with the Wimbledon championship. However, he showed no signs of losing form, taking accurate shots against Tiafoe to win his 24th tour win of the season in just 73 minutes.
Djokovic's singles result in the Laver Cup is now 1-1, after his only previous loss in a three-day event against Kevin Anderson in 2018.
American tennis player Tiafoe, who reached her first major semi-final at the US Open, collaborated with Jack Sock to defeat Federer and Nadal on Friday evening. However, he struggled to deal with Djokovic's heavy shots in their second meeting. Now the head-to-head score is 2-0.
Djokovic quickly returned to the field with a doubles against Berrettini. This was the first time they played together and won 4 breaks against the World Team.
Its first time, but its definitely not the last time, at least for me, Djokovic said in an interview on the pitch, I really like it. A perfect team, I think so. I don't play doubles much, so this is a completely different match."
In the first match of the day, Berrettini helped Team Europe take the lead when he beat Felix Auger-Aliassime with a score of 7-63-11/11, 4-6, 10-7. A tough match for the Italian tennis player, because Auger-Aliassime was also very resilient and sometimes made him confused and lose his feeling.
Berrettini has now led Auger-Aliassime 4-1 in their ATP Head2Head series, and also beat the 22-year-old at last year's Laver Cup.
In the second singles match, Taylor Fritz beat Cameron Norrie 6-1, 4-6, 10-8 to tie the score at 4-4. But Team Europe ended the second day of the 2022 Laver Cup with 4 consecutive wins from Djokovic's singles and doubles.
