The Laver Cup 2026 results are in, and the trophy is going back to Europe. Alexander Zverev beat Learner Tien 7-6(3), 6-3 at The O2 in London on Sunday to give Team Europe an unassailable 13-5 lead over Team World, ending the event with three matches still unplayed.
It is Team Europe’s sixth Laver Cup title, and Zverev has now been on the court for all six. He also struck the winning blow in Chicago in 2018, Geneva in 2019 and Boston in 2021, so Sunday’s win made it four clinchers for the German.
How Sunday went at The O2
Europe started the final day with a 7-5 lead after Saturday’s matches were shared, and they needed just two wins at three points apiece to finish it.
Flavio Cobolli and Jakub Mensik took care of the first one. The pair beat Alex de Minaur and Taylor Fritz 7-5, 6-3 in the opening doubles, which pushed Europe to 10 points and within one match of the title.
Zverev then walked out against Tien, who had beaten Cobolli in a match tiebreak on Saturday. The first set went all the way to a tiebreak, and the world No. 2 ran away with it 7-3 before taking the second 6-3 to close it out.
“Winning as a team, there’s no better feeling in sports. We don’t have enough of it in tennis,” Zverev said afterwards, according to the Laver Cup’s official site.
Laver Cup 2026 results: day by day
Friday belonged to Europe. Casper Ruud edged Francisco Cerundolo, Rafael Jodar beat Alexander Bublik 6-2, 6-3, and Carlos Alcaraz teamed with Mensik to beat Bublik and Fritz in doubles. Brandon Nakashima’s win over Mensik was World’s only point, leaving it 3-1.
Saturday was far closer. Tien beat Cobolli and De Minaur beat Zverev 11-9 in a match tiebreak, but Alcaraz beat Fritz 13-11 in a tense deciding breaker after saving two match points. Ruud and Zverev then won the evening doubles to make it 7-5 overnight. We covered that swing in our Laver Cup Day 2 report.
- Day 1: Europe 3, World 1
- Day 2: Europe 4, World 4
- Day 3: Europe 6, World 0
- Final: Team Europe 13, Team World 5
What it means for Team World
Team World had real chances this week. Two of their Saturday wins came in match tiebreaks and Fritz held two match points against Alcaraz. But they never won a match on Sunday, when every result was worth three points, and that is where the gap opened.
For Europe, the depth told. Six different European players won at least one match in London, and the young core of Mensik, Cobolli and Jodar all contributed alongside the established names.
