Medvedev – Zverev 6: 3, 6: 7, 7: 6, Defender Medvedev defeated Zvereva at the Champions Tournament and is in the semifinals

Daniil Medvedev receives congratulations from Alexander Zverev

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Immediately after the victory over Zverev, Medvedev was not 100% sure of the semifinals, but he still won the final tens of minutes after Berrettini withdrew. The home tennis player had to give up the opening match with Zverev due to injury and today he officially resigned from the ATP Tour final tournament. He will be replaced by compatriot Jannik Sinner, who will face Pole Hubert Hurkacz tonight.

Medvedev’s duel with Zverev, who won their opening duels at the tournament on Sunday, offered, as expected, a parade of elusive serve and winning strokes from the baseline. Medvedev scored the only broken break of the match and won the first set. He has not lost his service in Turin, both in the opening duel with Hurkacz and today he lost one set to Zverev without losing the serve in the tie-break.

In the shortened game of the deciding set, Medvedev already lost 2: 4, but with four balls in a row, the development reversed. Zverev averted the first sword ball with an ace, the second with an elusive return, but when the Russian tennis player made another sword ball at 7: 6, the German played a backhand into the net.

The second player in the Medvedev rankings today scored 14 aces and deflected four breakballs and scored his seventh victory in the Champions Tournament in a row, which was the current world number one Novak Djokovic in 2015 and 2016.

Immediately after the first duel, the top tournament at home ended for the Wimbledon finalist Berrettini, who injured his oblique abdominal muscle in the match against Zverev and had to resign in the second set after losing the first set. “I’m devastated, I never thought I would have to give up the most important tournament in Italy in this way,” he announced the end of his hopes on the instagram.

Matteo Berrettini resigned from the Champions Tournament

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Instead, the first substitute, Sinner, will join the game and make his premiere at the event. The winner of the Under-21 Championships from 2019 has a theoretical chance of a semifinal, but he must beat another debutant, Hurkacz, and subsequently Medvedev.