Alexander Zverev Photo: “olympic.org”
German tennis player Alexander Zverev celebrated his second victory in the final tournament of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in Turin on Thursday and reached the semifinals. Zverev (ATP 3rd) defeated Poly Hubert Hurkach (ATP 9th) with 6-2, 6-4.
In the first set, Zverevs celebrated the victory in just 27 minutes, allowing the opponent to win only 11 games, allowing the first point to be scored when he was already in the lead with 4-0. In the second set, Hurkač, with his strong serve, serving the opponent irresistibly ten times in the match, held half a step ahead until he lost in the ninth game, serving himself. Zverev secured the victory and meeting with the Serbian Novak Djokovic in the semifinals with the first match ball.
In the Red Group tournament, two wins in two games have been won by Russian Danil Medvedev (ATP 2nd), two wins in three matches have been won by Zverev (ATP 3rd), while Polish Hubert Hurkach (ATP 9th) has lost all three duels. The Italian Mateo Berretini (ATP 7th) was injured in his first game and was later replaced by his compatriot Jannik Siners (ATP 11th), who won one.
In the Green Group, the leader with two victories in two games is the world leader Serbia Novak Djokovic. Russia’s Andrei Rublov (ATP 5) and Norway’s Kasper Rud (ATP 8) have had one success in two matches, but Briton Kemeron Nori (ATP 12) and Greek Stefan Cicip (ATP 4) are the only losers in the fight. resigned due to injury.
After the round tournament, the two best tennis players from the subgroups enter the semifinals. The winner of the ATP season finale will be announced in a week. The winner of the season finale has the opportunity to earn $ 2,316,000 (€ 1.76 million), provided they win all the matches.
In the final last year, Medvedev defeated the Austrian Dominic Tim with a score of 4-6, 7-6 (7: 2), 6-4.
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