Alexander Zverev again endorsed Novak Djokovic a painful defeat, this time in the ATP Finals, the Masters Cup that chokes him to the Serbian since he won it for the fifth time in 2015. The German, who a few months ago in Tokyo left the number one in the world without the possibility of finally hanging the Olympic gold, He beat him in another semi-final of a posh tournament (7-6 (4), 4-6 and 6-4 in 2h28) and will play this Sunday (17:00, #Vamos) the game for the title against Daniil Medvedev, who got rid of the Norwegian Casper Ruud without problems (6-4 and 6-2).
“I have not spent more time on the track this year with anyone,” said the winner, who had met Djokovic four times already this year and lost three. Zverev, a tennis player whose game shines with special intensity on hard court and indoors (in those conditions he has already won six titles), aspires to get his second trophy in the tournament, after the one he raised in 2018 precisely against Djokovic, whom he has outmatched four times in 11 matches. Nole arrived grown after beating Medvedev in the Paris-Bercy final and he looked confident and happy, but he ran into one of the opponents who, from time to time, knows how to disturb him and that the ATP end-of-term party made him bitter, although he still has one ITF competition, the Davis Cup. Not surprisingly, he is the best of the year in victories along with 58, the same accumulated by the Russian, his next opponent. Nole says goodbye to 2020 with three Grand Slam titles, a Masters 1,000 and a 250 … and on the throne. It’s not bad at all.
In the first set the level of tennis was very high. Djokovic lost it due to small details, including his second serve (with first he only lost two goals), which Zverev attacked well, and reliability in long exchanges, a specialty of the house in which the Teuton shone on many occasions above the master. But above all, because he did not take advantage of the opportunity to close the set by having a point to be able to do it to the rest with 5-4 in favor. Then he lifted two break points and the tiebreaker became inevitable. There the service to the Balkan failed and his rival embroidered him.
Unsuccessful reaction
For a few moments, Djokovic seemed out of the game. He made some big mistake and he didn’t look comfortable even with the ball boys. But he held on, withstood Zverev’s downpour of serves, trailing behind on the scoreboard and converted his third break point at just the right moment. Later, suffering, he hit his fifth set ball and lengthened the match.
Zverev did not accuse the blow, because he was still high, fast, sharp and with a fantastic behavior to the rest, adapted to the swing that the leader of the ranking proposed., who tried to take him down the street of bitterness with his dictatorial setback. But one of them went out on the baseline and suddenly he found himself with a break against him. Sascha had to keep his powerful duty shifts. Something easy to say, but difficult to execute against a legendary and infuriated champion. It achieved this with a remarkable capacity for resistance to pressure. He knew how to suffer and save strength to continue firing cannon shots.
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