Andre Agassi had called on Alex de Minaur to come up trumps twice in a day to become Team World's Laver Cup saviour -- but his Australian talisman failed at the first hurdle as Europe regained the trophy in London.
Instead, it was Alexander Zverev, defeated in Saturday's singles by de Minaur, who went on to seal the tournament-winning points for Yannick Noah's European squad by defeating American Learner Tien in the key singles on Sunday afternoon (Monday AEST).
Agassi adores de Minaur's never-say-die competitiveness and had paired him with American Taylor Fritz in the final day's critical opening doubles, trusting they could down Italy's Flavio Cobolli and Czech Jakub Mensik, thus overturning Europe's overnight two-point lead.
