Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev, world number 8, and Australian Alexei Popyrin (n.62) will compete this Monday in the final of the ATP Masters 1,000 in Canada, played in Montreal, after winning their respective semi- final matches. this Sunday.
Rublev defeated Italian Matteo Arnaldi (n.46) 6-4, 6-2 in a match that lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes and had to be interrupted due to rain shortly after the start of the second set.
Popyrin, for his part, defeated American Sebastian Korda (n.18), recent winner of the ATP 500 in Washington, 7-6(0) and 6-3 in 1 hour and 32 minutes of play.
The Australian played the semifinals almost without a break, because this Sunday he also had to play his quarterfinal match against the Polish Hubert Hurkacz (n.6), whom he defeated 3-6, 7-6(5) and 7 -5 in over 2 hours and 47 minutes.
The Montreal organization was forced to schedule several rounds on the same day over the weekend to finish the tournament on time after all of Friday and part of Thursday were suspended due to rain.
That the final was played on Monday, a day later than usual, was a decision made to give tennis players participating in the Paris Olympics time to get to Canada.
Monday will be the sixth Masters 1,000 final for Rublev, who has won two – Monte Carlo 2023 and Madrid 2024 -.
Russian and Popyrin have met twice, with a victory for each.
Regardless of the outcome of Monday’s final, Rublev will move up to sixth in the ATP rankings when the tournament ends thanks to the points earned in Montreal.
The Muscovite had a great tournament and on Saturday, in the quarterfinal round, he eliminated the world number 1 and current Canadian champion, the Italian Jannik Sinner.
Granollers and Zeballos, in the doubles final
In the doubles tournament, Spanish tennis player Marcel Granollers and Argentine Horacio Zeballos also qualified for the final this Sunday after defeating Salvadoran Marcelo Arévalo and Croatian Mate Pavic in the semifinals by 6-2, 2-6 and 10-1.
Granollers and Zeballos have already faced Arévalo and Pavic this year in the final in Rome, with victories for the Catalan and Argentine, and in the semifinals of Roland Garros, a tournament won by the Salvadoran and the Croatian.
This Monday they will play the final against the pair formed by American Rajeev Ram and British Joe Salisbury, who today defeated the Monegasque Hugo Nys and the Polish Jan Zielinski in the semifinals by 6-4, 4-6 and 11- 9
Source: La Verdad
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