Ahead 5-4 and serving to win the third set and the match, at 40-40, Stefanos Tsitsipas invented the point that led him to the match point and subsequently to the victory at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters 2022.
All this took place in the race valid for a place in the semifinal at the Master 1000 in Monte Carlo, against the Argentine Diego Schwartzman. The Greek went to the net and literally dived to repel the passer-by attempted by the Peque: the result was a crazy and impregnable volley for his opponent, which made the crowd explode in the stands.Ć¹
Setting up match point in STYLE š²@steftsitsipas #RolexMCMasters pic.twitter.com/KicEIAdv6l
ā Tennis TV (@TennisTV) April 15, 2022
Stefanos Tsitsipas confirms the title at the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters. To find a player capable of winning the Monegasque 1000 at least two times in a row, it is still necessary to bother Rafael Nadal from the archives. This would be enough to define the scope of the world’s number five enterprise.
Alejandro Davidovich Fokina’s fable ends on a high note, one step away from his first career seal in the Masters Category: a success in 2001 at the countryman and qualified Albert Portas. The Spaniard would also become the first unseeded to win since 1992 after Thomas Muster.
It was enough for Tsitsipas to win against Diego Schwartzman in the quarter-finals to administer his status as a top favorite. Everything was easy against Alexander Zverev, the match against Davidovich was more complicated. Despite a hole in the heart of the second, and a phase of purgatory, the final 6-3 7-6 (3) is rather emblematic.