The German Alexander Zverev he won the most fascinating rivalry remaining at the Paris Masters 1,000, pitting him against the Greek in the quarterfinals Stefanos Tsitsipaswhere the German imposed his stripes and reached the twentieth semifinals in this category of tournaments.
The world number 3, the highest-ranked one left in the battle, wins 7-5 and 6-4 at number 11, thus snapping a streak of three consecutive seasons at the penultimate step of Paris and scuttling his chances of finishing in the year’s best eight, which would mean direct qualification for the Turin Masters.
The rivalry, from power to power, did not have a high intensity, but it showed that these two tennis players, aged 27 and 26, have a very equal level. Even Zverev is going through a better moment.
Even in the first set, the German was able to grab his rival’s serve in the eleventh and use his serve to score the set. Although Tsitsipas had a break point, Zverev held serve and won the set.
The Greek, somewhat demoralized, took a 3-1 lead as soon as the second began, a huge burden the Greek could not shake off to reach his 17 Masters 1,000 semi-finals, the second this year in which he won in the tournament. of Monte Carlo.
The German emerged as the overwhelming favorite to win his second Masters 1,000 of the year, after the one in Rome. His next obstacle to the final will come from the match between the Dane Holger Rune, winner under the roof of the French capital in 2022, and the Australian Alex de Minaur, who maintains the qualification options for the Turin Masters.
Zverev’s perseverance is unquestionable, as shown by the fact that he is the third active player with 20 Masters 1,000 semifinals, though he is far behind the 78 of the Serbian Novak Djokovic and the 76 of the Spaniard Rafa Nadal.
The German, who has never won a Grand Slam, failed in the final shot when he was in front of the top opponents and in this tournament they are all already low in their ranking.
If last year Tsitsipas knocked him out in Paris in the round of 16, now it is the German who has imposed his law to reach the semifinals of the tournament for the third time in the last four years, with only one win, in 2020 , when he lost in the final against Russian Daniil Medvedev.
Source: La Verdad
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