German to face Berrettini in final
Following his quarter-final win against Rafael Nadal, Alexander Zverev told reporters that his final-set tie-break loss to Dominic Thiem in last year’s US Open final would be on his mind when he faced the Austrian in the Mutua Madrid Open semi-finals. The German was able to use that experience as motivation on Saturday to defeat Thiem 6-3, 6-4 on Manolo Santana Stadium.
The World No. 6 earned 11 break points and broke serve on three occasions to snap a four-match losing streak against Thiem. Zverev owns a 1-8 ATP Head2Head record against the World No. 4 outside of Madrid, but he has won both his encounters with Thiem on this court. Zverev also beat the third seed in straight sets in the 2018 championship match.
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Briton continues dream run, plays Tsitsipas on Saturday
Daniel Evans backed up his win over World No. 1 Novak Djokovic with a hard-fought victory over David Goffin on Friday for a place in the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters semi-finals.
The World No. 33, who had come into the Monte-Carlo tournament on a 10-match losing streak on clay courts, overcame Monaco resident and No. 11 seed Goffin 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in two hours and 42 minutes.
“I played good today, said Evans. I felt a bit more pressure today to not [just] win yesterday and give a bad performance today. It wasn’t easy after the match yesterday, I felt really tired afterwards. To get back and focus, it was difficult. I am proud of how I came back today, especially with what happened in the first set. I felt [my] concentration wasn’t great and I am really happy with coming through. Yesterday, would not have been worth it with a bad performance today.
ATPTour.com revisits the storylines from the first quarter of the season
The first quarter of the 2021 ATP Tour season was a history-make affair, with new and familiar faces grabbing headlines.
Novak Djokovic set records at the Australian Open and atop the FedEx ATP Rankings. Daniil Medvedev made a rankings statement of his own and at the ATP Cup led Russia to glory alongside Andrey Rublev and former secret weapon Aslan Karatsev, who came from obscurity to become one of the season s hottest players.
NextGen ATP Finals champion Jannik Sinner, 19, surged to the cusp of the Top 20 after a run to the Miami Open final, where Hubert Hurkacz became the first Pole to win an ATP Masters 1000 event. Emerging stars Sebastian Korda and Lorenzo Musetti (one of nine Italians in the Top 10) also turned heads in Q1.