With this prestigious victory in a tournament that brings together the eight best tennis players of the season, Zverev concludes an especially prolific 2021.
German tennis player Alexander Zverev, No. 3 in the world, relentlessly outperformed the Russian Daniil Medvedev, N.2 and current champion of the tournament, this Sunday in the final of the Turin Masters, by a double 6-4, to lift his second ‘Masters Cup’.
With this prestigious victory in a tournament that brings together the eight best tennis players of the season, Zverev concludes a particularly prolific 2021, in which he has won six titles, including Olympic gold in Tokyo-2020.
As in the Japanese capital, Zverev (24 years old) qualified for the final this Sunday after eliminating in the previous round the number 1 and great favorite Novak Djokovic, who was thus without the possibility of equaling the record of victories in the Swiss Masters Roger Federer (6).
“It’s fantastic because I won the Masters final against an opponent with whom I had lost the last five games, so I had to play one of my best matches,” congratulated the German, winner of the Masters tournament in 2018.
Player with the most wins in 2021
“There is no better way to end the season, so I am very happy and ready to go on vacation,” joked Zverev, who with 59 wins becomes the player with the most wins in 2021.
Zverev is also the first tennis player since André Agassi in 1990 to win the Masters after defeating the top two players in the world rankings.
The first Masters held in Turin, in which neither Federer nor the Spaniard Rafael Nadal participated due to injury, confirmed that the new generation of tennis players is finally ready to take over: for the first time since 2005, the two finalists were 25 years old. or less.
Faced with the recent winner of the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000, Zverev (who had lost to Medvedev earlier this month in the French capital by a clear 6-2 and 6-2) was relentless with his serve (8 ‘aces’ and 83% of points won with his first serve).
A ‘break’ in each set (in the third game in the first set and in the first in the second) was enough to overcome in just one hour and a quarter a Medvedev who was not right (only 58% of first services).
Despite the defeat, the Russian made a positive balance of the year: “It has been a great season. It is not easy to reach the final of the Masters and that is why I am so happy to be here ”.
“Hopefully I can be a part of this tournament again and have a chance to win it one more time,” added Medvedev. (D)
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