Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev I traced an even game to German Alexander Zverev at the end of Masters 1.000 of Pars, to prevail 5-7, 6-4 and 6-1 in 2 hours and 7 minutes and add his first tournament of the year. The 24-year-old world number 5 waited until the end of the year to open a palmars that last season he fed profusely, but which remained immobile during this season, the result of the Russian’s irregular play.
Medvedev becomes the heir to a saga of Russians who have won in Paris, Marat Safin, Nikolay Davidenko and, the second last, Karen Khachanov.
In his fourth final in a 1,000 Masters, the Muscovite adds his third title of that category, after having won last year those of Cincinnati and Shanghai, where he also defeated Zverev in the final, so far his only victory against the German in 6 duels.
His good performance in Paris, where he emerged after a gloomy year, raise him to fourth place in the ranking, where he can beat the Swiss Roger Federer.
The Russian, defined many times as a different tennis player, prevailed in the final that measured the last two defeated finalists of the US Open. Medvedev lost last year to Spain’s Rafael Nadal and Zverev this season to Australia’s Dominic Thiem.
Medvedev was ahead of the game of a Zverev, seven in the ranking at 23, who reached the final in Paris with a streak of 12 consecutive wins behind him, convinced of being able to add his third title followed indoors after the two that he signed up for in Cologne.
Along the way, the German even scored a second career victory against Rafael Nadal of Spain, whom he defeated with a brilliant game in the Paris semi-finals.
The omens solidified when the German scored the first set, decided in few details between two rivals who strengthened their service with an iron fist and only in the eleventh did the German manage to snatch it from the Russian to stay one set from the title.
Zverev promises them happy, that he already sees a fourth Masters 1,000 close by in his showcases, sure that the smooth sailing from Cologne will boost him to victory.
But Medvedev reacted, who took a step forward on the track that forced the German to give up the initiative. The German went from wolf to lamb, ready to be eaten by the Russian who kept pressing on the service of a Zverev unable to rebuild himself.
He defended himself as best he could until the eighth game, when the Russian opened a streak of six consecutive games, which earned him to score the second set and be 4-0 in the final.
Enough to end the German resistance, who lost the thread of his tennis and was barely able to add a new game, before giving up the match with a double fault, a symbol of his despair on the field.
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