The Laver Cup, co-founded by Roger Federer and his agent Tony Godsick, took place in Berlin over the weekend as Team Europe defeated Team World.

The players competing in the Laver Cup definitely care. Of course they do — they are professional athletes and competitive beasts; put them all together in a game of minigolf and they’d take it extremely seriously. But the event’s lack of accumulated pressure from the rest of the tennis calendar feels germane in the context of Alcaraz’s comments.