Sohu Sports News On the evening of November 14th, Beijing time, the 2021 men’s tennis ATP year-end finals kicked off in Turin, Italy. In the first round of the red group, the defending champion and the new US Open champion Medvedev took the lead. After losing in the tie-breaker, they launched a counterattack, defeating Polish player Hulkach 6-7/6-3/6-4 in a reversal, and won the group stage opener.
Medvedev once again ushered in the peak of his state at the end of last season, unbeaten record won the Paris game and the finals, entering this season, the Australian Open broke into the finals and lost, after experiencing the ups and downs in the middle of the season, the North American season broke out again, and the Rogers Cup won After the fourth Masters championship in his career, the US Open defeated Dejo to win his first Grand Slam men’s singles championship. This tournament played as the defending champion. The opponent in the first round of the group was Polish star Hulkach. The latter has risen strongly this season and won the Miami Championship. Since then, he has played in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, constantly refreshing his best record of his career. Won a seat in the finals for the first time. The two had previously played against Medvedev twice before this season, Wimbledon Hulkach defeated Medvedev in five sets, Rogers Cup Medvedev eight-final tiebreaker victory to complete the revenge.
In the first set, Hurkac, who was the first to serve, came up and quickly found the serve state and easily secured the serve. Medvedev didn’t encounter too many waves in his first serve to secure a 1-1 tie. Since then, the game has entered the rhythm of their own serve. Both the success rate of the first serve exceeds 70% and the score rate of the first serve is more than 80%. The guaranteed first serve advantage of Hulkach is 5-4. In the tenth game of Medvedev’s serve under pressure, Hulkaqiduo scored a stalemate and then backhanded to bring the opponent back and scored a 30-15 lead. Medvedev then recovered his serve and kept scoring 5-5 consecutively. flat. The scores came to a 6-6 tie with their respective guarantees. In the tiebreaker, Medvedev crossed the ball before the net and the quality was not high. Hurkac took the lead in volleying to complete the mini break. After that, Hulkac led 6-2 all the way. Taking the lead in the inventory, Medvedev saved three inventory points in a row, but then ran the forehand offensive diagonally out of bounds and lost the first set. Hulkach won the tie-break 7-5.
In the second set, Medvedev, who took the lead to serve, got rid of the late slump in the last set and completed the guarantee. In the second game, Hurkac’s serve suffered an impact and gave the first break point opportunity of the game. Medvedev was winning with the shot. A break 2-0 lead. In the first round, they secured a 3-1 lead. Medvedev served a 40-40 tie in the fifth game. Then the serve connected to the forehand backslash and scored again. Medvedev scored a 4-1 lead with a tie. Hurkacs, who was behind the score, was difficult to break back and came to Medvedev’s serve to win the game 5-3. After a double error, the score reached 40-40. Under pressure, Medvedev hit the bottom line and played a continuous high-quality offense. , Baofa won the second set 6-3 and the total score came to a 1-1 tie.
In the deciding set, Medvedev continued to improve his state, Hulkach’s state began to decline, especially for consecutive mistakes. Medvedev took a 30-0 lead in the first game, and then the high-quality serve squeezed Hulkach, and the fore shot was under pressure. Straight out of bounds sends consecutive break points. Medvedev received the serve and pressed to the net, Hulkach tried to pick the top quality is not high, Medvedev high-pressure spike to complete the break, take advantage of the situation to secure a 2-0 lead. In the third game, Medvedev continued to attack his opponent. Hurkacs stubbornly netted the net. Medvedev backhanded and scored a straight line. Under pressure, Hurkacs improved the quality of his serve and completed the guarantee. Each guaranteed Medvedev’s 5-3 lead, and Hulkacs suffered a 0-30 lag in the must-have serve. After that, he completed his serve with continuous high-quality serve. Medvedev’s serve wins the game. , Successfully secured a 6-4 victory in the final set.
In the end, the defending champion Medvedev staged a reversal, 2-1 victory over Wimbledon semi-finals Hulkach, won the group stage starter. The whole game took 2 hours. Medvedev blasted 15 ACES balls and 1 double fault. Hurkacs blasted 12 ACES balls. Medvedev had a success rate of 73% and a scoring rate of 83%. All lead the opponent. In terms of winning points, both of them had 32 points. Medvedev had only 8 unforced errors, while Hulkacs had 23. In the breaking point, Hulkacs failed to get a break point, while Medvedev did. It is 4 break points to complete 2 breaks.Return to Sohu to see more
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