The Russian left Alexander Zverev on the road, shortly after the world number one prevailed against the Pole Hubert Hurkacz.
The Russian Daniil Medvedev did not give the German Alexander Zverev a chance to revenge and, after winning by a double 6-2, was placed for the second year in a row in the final of the Masters 1000 in Paris that will play against Serbian Novak Djokovic.
Paris has the desired ending. The first two favorites of the competition will face off for the title. A reissue of the fight they had in the last US Open that ended with the Russian’s victory and caused the world number one to take a break before returning to Paris Bercy.
He did not have the expected resistance Medvedev, champion in Paris last year. The German only resisted 80 minutes, the time it took for the Muscovite to close the semifinal.
The Russian has taken the measure against Zverev, with whom he played his tenth meeting to equalize the series at five. Nevertheless, It is Medvedev’s fourth straight win over the fourth player in the world who had eight consecutive wins that had provided himLast weekend, the title in Vienna, the fifth for the German this season.
Medvedev aims to raise his trophies to five in 2021. He has four, including the first Grand Slam of his career, in the United States, along with the Masters 1000 in Canada, Mallorca and Marseille.
Against Djokovic he intends to enlarge to fourteen the total of titles in his career. The Serbian suffered before to beat the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, who had a match point. In the end, the Balkan, who made sure to finish the year as world number one, beat his rival 3-6, 6-0 and 7-6 (5), in two hours and twenty minutes.
Djokovic and Medvedev will meet for the tenth time. The Serbian has won five of the matches and the Russian four, albeit the most recent, at the US Open. This season they also played the final of the Australian Open that the Balkan achieved. (D)
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