With Cup in the Balance, Alcaraz Doubles Up on Day 3

The points, the pressure, it all ramps up on Sunday at San Francisco’s Chase Center as Andre Agassi’s underdog Team World aims to preserve its advantage over the Yannick Noah-captained Team Europe, now just two wins away from their third Laver Cup title. Here’s a look at the Day 3 lineup:

Day 3 | Sunday, 12 p.m.

Carlos Alcaraz/Casper Ruud (Europe) vs. Alex Michelsen/Reilly Opelka (World)
There’s a new look to the lineup on Day 3 at Laver Cup 2025 as doubles leads off the order of play. Carlos Alcaraz and Casper Ruud will do their best to stem the Team World tide when they go up against Alex Michelsen and Reilly Opelka, two 11th-hour additions who stepped in to fill the roster spots left by their injured countrymen Ben Shelton and Tommy Paul. The 21-year-old Southern Californian Michelsen has proven to be a workhorse for Andre Agassi’s contingent, having already played three matches between singles and doubles.

Jakub Mensik (Europe) vs. Alex De Minaur (World)
Yannick Noah has penciled in Miami Open champ Jakub Mensik in the first singles slot, banking on the 20-year-old Czech to deliver three much-needed points. To secure them, Mensik will first need to get past a motivated Alex de Minaur, against whom he is 0-2. De Minaur, No. 8 in the PIF ATP Rankings, has already accounted for four Team World points between singles and doubles, including a 6-1, 6-4 dismissal of Zverev on Day 2. The Aussie appears to be thriving under first-year Laver Cup mentors Andre Agassi and Patrick Rafter. “Both Pat and Andre, they’ve made my life super easy. They haven’t put any sort of pressure,” he said. “They’ve just been a blast to be around, and I’ve enjoyed every second of it. It’s just been a great team environment.”

Carlos Alcaraz (Europe) vs. Francisco Cerundolo (World)
Still smarting from a 6-3, 6-2 upset at the hands of Team World’s Taylor Fritz on Saturday night, top-ranked Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz would relish the opportunity to redeem himself and put Team Europe in a position to win its sixth Laver Cup title. The six-time major singles titlist is unbeaten in three head-to-heads with Francisco Cerundolo, including a pair of victories earlier this year in Indian Wells and Monte-Carlo. The Argentine Cerundolo is especially fond of the Laver Cup format (and its slow court), a perfect 3-0 in tournament competition.

Alexander Zverev (Europe) vs. Taylor Fritz (World)
The Agassi-Rafter captaincy has been eyeing this one all along, a chance to throw their top man Taylor Fritz into the ring with Alexander Zverev, against whom he’s 8-5, including a 6-4, 7-5 upending in Laver Cup action last year in Berlin. More recently, Fritz out-slugged the German earlier his summer in the Stuttgart final, 6-3, 7-6(0). Coming off a humbling straight-sets defeat at the hands of Alex De Minaur on Day 2, Zverev will look to turn things around with the kind of result that could save his year. The world No. 3 is the all-time points leader in Laver Cup play with 21. Will Sunday come down to a decider between these Top-10 foes?

Note: Matches on Sunday are worth three points and continue until the first team reaches 13 points on the leaderboard. If the points are 12-12 after Match 12, a final overtime doubles match – a Decider – is played as a regular set with ad scoring and a tiebreak. Any pair, regardless of whether they have played before, can return for the Decider.