The German tennis player, 3rd in the ATP ranking, took the Chilean out of the competition by beating the current number 45 in the world ranking in two sets of 7-5 and 6-2.
Alexander Zverev (3rd in the ATP rankings) stopped the advance of Christian Garin (45th) at the Masters 1000 in Rome . The German tennis player won without major complications the Chilean in the quarterfinals of the tournament in two sets of 7-5 and 6-2 after one hour and 52 minutes of competition.
The first quarter was even until the sixth game. There, the national tennis player had his first chances to break the German having two options. However, the German managed to recover from those minutes of suffering and kept his serve.
Gago’s task began to get more complicated in the seventh game, giving his rival a double break chance and he took advantage of the second to climb back up the scoreboard. . However, Garin continued to fight andWe denied Zverev the chance to confirm the break by doing the same in the eighth, again leaving the set tied at 4-4. .
After that, Garin had to avoid another break option in the ninth game, but couldn’t do anything in the 11th. There, the European took advantage of the failures of the national player to go up and have the possibility of completing the first set with his service.
The task turned out to be more complicated than expected, as the South American representative had two options to take the match to a tie-break. Given this, Zverev had to come back and close everything with a 7-5 .
Already in the second set, the duel for Garin started with a disadvantage when he lost his serve from the start and experienced the same in the fifth game, being 4-1 on the scoreboard. With that, it was enough for the German to keep his serve to win the set 6-2 and the match .
With this result Garin equaled his Masters 1000 records, repeating what happened at Paris-Bercy 2019 and Madrid 2021 which will allow him to return to the top 40 of the ATP rankings.
In turn, Alexander Zverev qualified for the semi-finals of the Rome Masters and will face the winner of the duel between the Italian Jannik Sinner (13th) and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (5th).
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Source: Latercera
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