Marin Cilic and Dominic Thiem led the Team Europe 2-0 in the Laver Cup as expected.
Team Europe took the lead in the Laver Cup against Team World in paper form, 2:0 as expected.In the opening singles, Marin Cilic won against Frances Tiafoe 7:6 (7:3), 7:6 (7:0).Dominic Thiem then defeated John Isner 6-7 (15-17), 7-6 (7-2), 10-7 in another tiebreak.The third set will be played in a match tiebreak at the Laver Cup.On Friday, Alexander Zverev and Denis Shapovalov will meet on tennisnet. com at the live ticker at 7 pm on Friday and the doubles match between Tomas Berdych and Rafael Nadal against Nick Kyrgios and Jack Sock.
The Laver Cup will be played in three days and twelve matches.Each day there are three individual matches and a doubles match.On Friday and Saturday there is a day session as well as a night session.The Laver Cup will close on Sunday with a day session.
Single and double matches are played in the Laver Cup in best-of-three mode.A match win will bring one point on Friday, two points on Saturday and three points on the final day.In order to win the Laver Cup, the team needs 13 out of 24 possible points.
If points are scored after the 12 matches between Team Europe and the 12:12 World Choice, there will be a decider in doubles on the last day.
In the course of the Laver Cup each player completes a maximum of 2 single games.Four of the six players in each team must compete in doubles, with each doubles combination only allowed to compete together once.