Sohu Sports News Beijing time on the evening of November 16, the 2021 season men’s tennis ATP year-end finals continued in Turin, Italy, defending champion Medvedev fell into a three-set battle and entered the tie-break twice 6-3/6-7/7 -6 defeated Zverev Jr. and scored a five-game winning streak against the latter. Medvedev also won a seven-game winning streak in the cross-season finals. The first two consecutive rounds of the group stage are about to qualify.
Russian star Medvedev won the finals last season and continued to improve this season. The Australian Open won the Rogers Cup after reaching the finals, while the US Open broke the Dyvor’s monopoly on this season’s Grand Slam and won the Grand Slam for the first time in his career. Men’s singles champion, the Paris game just ended, and then reached the final performance. Medvedev played as the No. 2 seed in this tournament. He defeated Hulkach 2-1 in the first round of the group stage. In the second round of the group stage, his opponent was No. 3 seed Zverev, who won the Masters twice this season. The champion, in addition to the Tokyo Olympic gold medal, received Berrettini’s retirement gift in the second set of the first round of the finals. As the two representatives of the new generation, the two have previously played 10 times and each won 5 games and reached a tie. However, the most recent victory of the small Zvi was in the 2019 finals. Since then, Medvedev has won four consecutive victories, including In the semi-finals of the Paris game that just ended, Medvedev won in straight sets.
In the first set, Medvedev, who took the lead to serve, scored a wonderful retreat half-volley as soon as he came up. After that, Xiao Zwei scored 40-15 consecutive break points in continuous high-quality receiving and serving, and Medvedev got the serve under pressure. In the state, the ACES ball was continuously fired to complete the guarantee. In the second game, Zvi Jr. entered the state slowly in the first serving game. Medvedev caught the serve and fell into a long and multi-beat stalemate. Medvedev won a 22-beat stalemate and scored a 30-30 tie. After that, the winning point was scored. At the break point, Medvedev chose to go online after receiving the serve. After three consecutive attempts, Zvi was intercepted by Medvedev to break serve and lead 2-0.
In the third game, Zvi Jr. continued to try to hit his opponent’s serve. Medvedev was shooting out of bounds and encountered a break point. Zvi Jr. was still unable to break serve at a critical time. Medvedev then made a high-quality serve to connect to the Internet and scored to complete the service. 3- 0 leads. In the fourth game, Medvedev won another 32 shots and scored a 30-30 tie. After that, Zvey improved his serve and completed his first serve in the field. Since then, the game entered the rhythm of their own serve, Medvedev firmly held the break advantage of the opening stage, 6-3 won the first set victory.
In the second set, Zvi, who took the lead in the first game, had a 40-40 tie in the first game, and then sent a break point with an ACES ball to save the break point. After the volley went out of bounds with the ACES ball, he sent a break point opportunity. Zvi continued. The ACES ball was struggling to secure a 1-0 lead. After that, it entered the rhythm of their respective serve. The score quickly came to a 3-3 tie. In the seventh game, Zvi Jr. suffered an impact. Medvedev returned the ball to the net to form a short ball and scored 40-40. Zvi’s bottom line was positive. The offense missed to send a break point. Under pressure, Zvi still saved with the ACES ball and completed a 4-3 lead with a guaranteed serve. In the next round, the scores came to a 6-6 tie. In the tie-break, their respective mini-breaks started 1-1. Then Medvedev was deducted by a foot error, and then Jr. Zvi scored 4-1 consecutive servings. Taking the lead, Jr. Zvey then continued to maintain high-quality serve, winning the tie-break 7-3 and winning the second set, and the total score came to a 1-1 tie.
In the deciding game, both of them recovered their serving status, and the score was tied 3-3 after completing the guarantee in the opening stage. Medvedev secured a 4-3 lead in the seventh game. In the eighth game, he once launched a shock to get a 30-30 tie, and then Zvi Jr. served consecutively to complete a 4-4 tie. In the eleventh round of the end of the game, Medvedev’s serve was in danger. After a 30-30 tie, Zvey quickly mobilized his opponent on the bottom line. Medvedev backhanded the ball and hooked the net to send a break point. After that, under pressure, three consecutive times The high-quality serve completed the guarantee, and the small Zwei then again guaranteed the score to a 6-6 tie.
Entering the tie-breaker of the final set, Jr. Zvi took the lead with a mini break and took a 3-1 lead. Medvedev then improved. The bottom line forced the opponent to return the ball and hang the net to complete the mini return. Then he attacked the opponent and scored 6-4 in the second serve. Match point. Under pressure, Zvi scored a serve to resolve a match point, received the serve and played a backhand and crossed diagonally and saved the match point 6-6. Medvedev scored the third match point, and then the bottom line rushed back to the straight line. The ball hit the net, 8-6 Medvedev won the tie-break.
In the end, Medvedev experienced two tie-breaks with a 2-1 victory over Zverev Jr., and achieved two consecutive victories in the group stage and almost locked a semi-final place. The whole game took 2 hours and 35 minutes. Medvedev completed 14 ACES balls and 1 double fault, while Jr. Zvi had 2 double faults with 18 ACES balls. The first serve success rate was 79%. Medvedev led by 79% of his first serve scoring rate. The winning points were 40 Medvedev and 30 Medvedev, the unforced turnover was 34-40 lower than the opponent. In the break point, Zvi Jr. did not honor any of the 4 break points in the game, while Medvedev made 1 break with 4 break points.Return to Sohu to see more
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