The top of the Shanghai Masters 1000 draw already has its first semi-finalist: Grigor Dimitrov. The Bulgarian defeated Nico Jarry in straight sets (7-6, 6-4) and reaffirmed himself as a clear candidate to win the title this weekend.
It will happen to us many times in the future. Matches like today’s, very close in terms of opportunities, with two good servers who are not so in tune with the rest, facing each other in a tournament with conditions where the ball does not make it easy to make winners. What outcome will we have then? That unless one of the two is far from their best physical shape, the tiebreak seems to be the only way out. It happened this Friday to Dimitrov and Jarry, unable to share a first set where neither gave any ground on serve. But you already know that in the tiebreakers things change and it is experience that predominates. There where the Bulgarian took out his cape and confirmed that he was a slight favorite.
In favor of the Chilean we will say that his mentality did not change at any time, he continued to be faithful to his plan, where the serve takes special prominence. Although in this case, both contenders showed spectacular numbers, with a success percentage of points won with first serve greater than 90%. Come on, when we saw that the score of the second quarter reached the halfway point at 3-3, many began to think that sudden death would have to make an appearance again to move on to the next screen. César Fábregas, Nico’s coach, pushed him from the stands to not stop trying, not to lose concentration. Jamie Delgado, much more relaxed, simply applauded his pupil.
HE WON THE TRADE
Suddenly, in a moment that did not seem dangerous, the South American decided to raise some doubts and go 15-40 down. The point is that he managed to save those two break points, but he could not finally carry out a game that ended up being capital to understand the end of the story. Both were at a very good level, both showed what their great strengths were, this fight could perfectly have gone for points, but it was Dimitrov’s head and toughness in important moments that led him to win. He more than deserves his place in the Shanghai semifinals, where he will meet Rublev or Humbert.
2023-10-13 10:22:52
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