The seventh racket of the world ranking in the second duel with 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 defeated Schwarzman, who is in the ninth position in the ATP ranking.
After the failure in the first set, Schwarzaman was not far from losing in the second set, because for a moment I was leading with 1-3, but in the end he won with 6-4. In the final set, Zverev beat his opponent three times, which also prevented Schwarzmann from winning his first victory.
The victory of Zverev, the winner of the 2018 ATP final tournament, means that Wednesday’s second duel participant Novak Djokovic needs a victory in two sets over Danily Medvedev from Russia to reach the semi-finals.
It has already been reported that on Monday, the world leader Serbia Djokovic defeated Argentine Diego Schwartzman (ATP 9) with 6-3, 6-2, but the Russian Danny Medvedev (ATP 4) defeated Alexander Zverev (ATP 9) with 6-3, 6-4. 7.) from Germany, winning the first victory of his career in the final tournaments of the season.
On Tuesday, runner-up Rafael Nadal in the second fight with 6-7 (7: 9), 6-7 (4: 7) gave way to Dominik Tim (3rd), while the tournament debutant from Russia Andrei Rublov (ATP 8th) with 1- 6, 6-4, 6-7 (6: 8) gave in to last year’s champion Stefan Cicip from Greece (ATP 6).
In the first round, Nadal defeated Rublov 6-3, 6-4, but Tim defeated Cicip with 7-6 (7: 5), 4-6, 6-3.
The ATP final tournament in London at the O2 Arena will take place from 15 to 22 November. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the tournament, which was first held in Tokyo in 1970.
Stun Smith won the laurels of victory in Tokyo 50 years ago.
This will be the 12th time that the final tournament will take place in London, but next year the competition is planned in Turin, Italy.
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