{"id":109392,"date":"2018-09-23T05:11:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T03:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=109392"},"modified":"2018-09-23T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T07:22:02","slug":"laver-cup-anderson-downs-novak-team-europe-still-in-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/laver-cup-anderson-downs-novak-team-europe-still-in-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Laver Cup: Anderson downs Novak, Team Europe still in lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Anderson upset Wimbledon and US Open champion Novak Djokovic to reignite Team World\u2019s hopes at <a href=\"https:\/\/lavercup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018 Laver Cup<\/a> in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The South African recorded a tight 7-6 (5), 5-7, 10-6 victory that left Team Europe 7-3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak and Anderson had split the first two sets, before a 10-point match tiebreaker was required, and for the first time it was Team World who prevailed.<\/p>\n<p>Later last night David Goffin and Grigor Dimitrov lost their match to Jack Sock and Nick Kyrgios in the doubles (3-6, 4-6). <strong>Team Europe holds a 7-5 lead over Team World in the 2018 Laver Cup after the sides split four matches Saturday at the United Center in Chicago.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Day 2 results in singles:<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Zverev b. John Isner 3-6, 7-6, 10-7<br \/>\nRoger Federer b. nick Kyrgios 6-3, 6-2<br \/>\nNovak Djokovic l.to Kevin Anderson 6-7(5), 7-5, 6-10<\/p>\n<p><strong>Each match win is worth two points on Saturday, and three points on Sunday. The first team to reach 13 points out of a total 24 points available will win the trophy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Anderson helped keep Team World in Laver Cup contention beating Team Europe&#8217;s Novak Djokovic 7-6 (5), 5-7, 10-6. The South African got a big 2 points with the win. Team Europe is still in lead, 7-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":109384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[101013014,101013013,101013011,101013012,101011960],"class_list":["post-109392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-tennis","tag-anderson","tag-chicago","tag-laver-cup","tag-team-europe","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109402,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109392\/revisions\/109402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}