The new tennis master is called Daniil Medvedev. He was born 24 years ago in Moscow and has received a doctorate on the 50th anniversary of the Masters by defeating in the final Dominic Thiem by 4-6, 7-6 (7-2) and 6-4 as champion of a generation that has dominated the last editions, after Andy Murray (2016), with Grigor Dimitrov (2017), Alexander Zverev (2018), Stefanos Tsistsipas (2019) .
The two fittest players faced each other at the end of this season. The first two of each group in the Nitto Finals ATP and the two who had left out the top two in the world. Thiem to Novak Djokovic and Medvedev a Rafael Nadal, in two battles won on the wire and saving the defeat in extreme situations.
The Austrian in a tie break in the third set, where he raised the Serbian tennis player with 4-1 against and the Russian in a match in which he was out of the final when Nadal He dominated him 6-3, 5-4 and served in his power.
The two traced the situation and threw out of class until next Djokovic, who was left without opting for the sixth title and Nadal, who again failed a pending subject that has been going through him for 15 years.
Talent and power
Medvedev Y Thiem they won with their game as talented as powerful their graduation as teachers. For the Austrian it was the second time he looked for it after it escaped him last year last year before Stefano Tsitsipas. For the Russian it was the second chance after leaving last year with three failures in the group stage.
Thiem has taken advantage of the notes he brought from his previous confrontations with Medvedev (3-1) and the final of last year to take advantage of the exit by winning the first set with a single ‘break’ (3-2).
Medvedev He could not find solutions to the problems posed by Thiem, who wasted two ‘break points’ in the sixth and in the eighth game of the second set and who, on two occasions, in the seventh game, saved two ‘break points’ in favor from Russian.
Final exam
From the first moment Thiem he showed himself as a diligent student. With hardly any errors, on that blue slate that could be the track of the O2 Arena, shooting at the lines, opening angles and holding firm with his serve.
But the Russian tennis player took the chop out of the bag to avoid suspense and, as he did before Nadal, sign the ‘tie break’ to force the final exam in a decisive third set. Not only that. Medvedev also this time has managed to turn the scoreboard to graduate with the ‘cum laude’ that in the end has escaped Thiem.
Medvedev closes a circle that began in London in 2009 with the victory of his compatriot Nikolai Davidenko to which the young Russian tennis player has taken over. Turin, next year, will examine the next applicants to graduate from the Masters.
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