The ATP Masters 1000 in Rome is a series of past misfortunes and big surprises once the tournament begins. The Italian fell Jannik Sinner and Spanish Carlos Alcaraz, due to injuries, they both left early Rafael Nadal number Novak Djokovic.
Losing favorites is a constant, daily drop in the men’s tournament, but not so in the women’s tournament, where it will be repeated in the Madrid final, between the Polish. Iga Swiatek and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. This Saturday.
But there is one male survivor who will challenge for the title until the end. The world number 5 will play in his third final at the Roman Foro Italico. Champion in 2017 and finalist in 2018, German Alexander Zverev came back to avoid becoming another famous victim.
He defeated 1-6, 7-6 (4) and 6-2 one of the heroes of this edition, the Chilean Alejandro Tabilo, executioner of Novak Djokovic and Karen Khachanovwho did not give up a set until he ran into a solid German, who withstood the examination they gave him at the beginning, who played the tiebreak as a big man and then mercilessly to an opponent whose dream was cut short. short.
Nerves did not work in favor of Tabilo, who was more conservative in the tiebreak, who stiffened in the third as defeat loomed. Your countryman Nicholas Jarry will play in the second semifinal, this Friday no earlier than 8:30 pm, with the American Tommy Paul.
Source: La Verdad
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