Medvedev, in the final after six difficult hours with Tsitsipas

Russian Daniil Medvedev, 27 years old and world number 3, took home the first of his three previous Masters 1000 ATP appearances in Rome. Anyone who hates clay without a doubt begins to come to terms with a surface that forces one to think and sacrifice more than a hard surface, where the Muscovite starts the engine and goes full throttle.

But Medvedev does the math and he knows that to be a good one he has to go through the clay swallow, which is easier to go through if he stops the hobbies and exposes his quality for all types of terrain. When you get serious, results will come.

He will play his second final on clay, after losing Godó 2019. This Sunday he will fight for the Masters 1000 ATP title in Rome against Danish Holger Rune. If he wins, in what would be his nineteenth title in as many different events, he will also take world number two from Novak Djokovic ahead of Roland Garros. I’ll match the draw Carlos Alcaraz1 and 2.

If there were doubts about Medvedev’s commitment, he needed six hours to resolve his semifinal with the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, 24 years old and No. 5, by 7-5 and 7-5. He celebrated it with a unique dance looking at his coach Gilles Cervera and his wife Daria. A drunken dance that is as difficult to classify as the character itself. Perhaps remembers a dance from Hellene when she won Cincinnati 2022. Now the balance is 8-4 in favor of Daniil.

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The meeting started at half past four in the afternoon and ended at half past ten in the evening. Although the game lasted one hour and 47 minutes, the tennis players had to take a long break of three hours with the scoreboard tied at 4-4. They came back to play. The third time, after another interminable pause, it was resolved.

From 5-5, 40-0 Tsitsipas, to joining and losing nine points in a row that gave the set to Medvedev by 7-5, which always precedes the second, which also requires a second ‘break’ to determine.

Has won 38 games this season, with six losses, with a record of 9-2 on the ground. can be seen along with runes, beat Casper Ruud before the rain cleared the Foro Italico, 6-7 (2), 6-4 and 6-2.

On the list of winners, the Dane’s victory over the Russian this season in the Monte Carlo quarterfinals, 6-3 and 6-4.

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