The Pole defeated the Russian tennis player 6-3, 3-6 and 7-6 (8) in 2 hours and 7 minutes

Shanghai 10/15/2023 at 16:41 CEST

The Pole defeated the Russian tennis player 6-3, 3-6 and 7-6 (8) in 2 hours and 7 minutes

It is the second time that he has managed to win a Masters 1000 category tournament after his victory in Miami in 2021

The Polish Hubert Hurkacznumber 17 in world tennis, was proclaimed today champion of the Shanghai Masters 1000 after beating the Russian in the final Andrey Rublevlocated in 7th place in the ATP ranking, for 6-3, 3-6 y 7-6 (8).

He match was resolved in 2 hours and 7 minutes and started facing the eventual winner, who showed himself demolition Man on serve during the first set and finally managed to take advantage of a breaking ball in the fifth gameor after several saves from his rival. In the second quarter, Rublev met his best versionstarting very strong in his turn and achieving a break on the first serve Hurkacz.

The excitement in a very close final set was served in the tenth game, where Hurkacz had a match point saved by Rublev with a direct serve that drove the stands of the center court of the Qizhong sports complex crazy; The Russian finally managed to force the tie break. However, in the tiebreaker, Rublev squandered his advantages (they went 0-3 and 2-5) and finally Hurkacz remained more composed to win 10-8.

Its about title number 7 for the Polishthe second this year, among which this is the second time in which he manages to win a Masters 1000 category tournament after his victory in Miami in 2021.

Throughout the previous rounds, Hurkacz eliminated the Australian Kokkinakis, the Taiwanese Hsu, the Chinese Zhang, the Hungarian Marozsan and the American Sebastian Korda. Rublev and Hurkacz had already met four times, with two victories for each – the last two, for the Russian -, so this count will now be in favor of the tournament champion.

The Shanghai Masters is played on a hard court and has cash prizes for 8.8 million dollars, of which almost 1.3 million are for the winner of the tournament. The competition had not been held since 2019 due to the ‘zero covid’ policy of the Chinese Government, and its last winner had been the Russian Daniil Medvedevwho this year fell in the third round to Korda.

2023-10-15 15:40:12
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