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Tsitsipas and Zverev meet in an instant rematch

Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev will meet again in the semifinals of a Masters 1,000, a week after doing it in Madrid, with a victory for the German. In Rome there will be an instant revenge of that match in which it will be the twelfth face-to-face duel (7-4 for the Greek). Interestingly, they also met in the penultimate round of Monte Carlo, although the Greek won there.

Tsitsipas earned the opportunity to take revenge by beating Italian idol Jannik Sinner in two sets (7-6 (5) and 6-2 in 2h27), whom he had beaten in three of their four meetings, two of them in Rome., where Sinner beat him in 2020. The Athenian shone with the serve (10 aces) and took good advantage of his break options (3/6), while saving five of the six that his rival had. Stefanos is the year’s leader in victories, with 30, 12 of them on gravel. The end of the game was marked by the fainting of a spectator.

Players with 100 or more wins at Masters 1,000 in the Open Era

PlayerBalanceMasters 1,000 titles
1.Rafael Nadal406-8636
2.Roger Federer381-10828
3.Novak Djokovic378-8337
4.Andy Murray222-8914
5.Stan Wawrinka156-1101
6.John Isner141-911
7.Richard Gasquet139-1080
8.Ferdinand Verdasco128-1300
9.Marin Cilic126-1091
10.Milos Raonic122-660
-.Gilles Simon122-1080
12.Wilfried Tsonga121-792
13.Gael Monfils118-870
14.Feliciano Lopez116-1390
15.Grigor Dimitrov112-801
16.Kei Nishikori107-650
17.Alexander Zverev100-445

Zverev, meanwhile, avenged the loss against Christian Garín in Munich 2019, when the Chilean won the title there. The Teuton prevailed, this time by 7-5 and 6-2 in 1h51, with 25 winners, four of them direct service. On Thursday, Sascha reached 100 victories in Masters 1,000 (now he has 101) and he is one of 17 active players to have reached at least that number.

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