Athletistic / Tennis. In the final match of the ATP Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships tournament with a 500 class, Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev will meet
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Tennis. APR. Dubai. The final. Medvedev – Rublev. Direct
Russian final at ATP level! Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev will battle it out for the Five Hundred title in Dubai! Tennis fans in our country had not seen such an enchanting spectacle for more than 14 years. In total, there have been five such cases in the history of the tour, and all of them fell on the period from 1994 to 2008.
And just a bit of history. The winners of the Russian ATP Tour finals were: Evgeny Kafelnikov (Adelaide, 1994), Marat Safin (Tashkent 2001, Beijing 2004), Nikolai Davydenko (Moscow 2006) and Igor Kunitsyn (Moscow 2008). In the last two matches, Marat Safin was inferior, so he is the record holder of the Russian final, participating in it 4 times. And now, after almost 15 years, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev have given us the opportunity to see another national spectacle in the final.
What do the Russians have with the statistics? Daniil Medvedev, 27, has 17 singles titles to his name. In the ATP rankings, he takes 7th place, but if he wins the final, he will move up to 6th place. Also remember that Medvedev reached the final of the ATP tournaments for the third week in a row. Of course, Daniil will do his utmost to add the Dubai title to the recent victories in Rotterdam and Doha.
Andrey Rublev, 25, has 12 singles titles. The last he won last October in Gijón. Rublev is now the sixth racket in the world, but if he wins the final, he will go up a line. But if Andrei loses, he will lose one position, losing sixth place in the standings to Daniil Medvedev. Thus, two of our tennis players will also play for the title of the first racket in Russia. Rublev has had it for the past few weeks. And by the way, Andrei is the current winner of the Dubai tournament, so he will defend the title.
And now let’s talk about the personal encounters of tennis players. Since 2019, there have been six. The first four personal fights were left to Medvedev, and all of them were in the quarter-finals and Daniil did not give a single set in those matches to his compatriot. And in the final two, Rublev celebrated victory. In one case it was the Masters semi-final in Cincinnati (2021), and in the other it was an ATP Championship Finals group stage match. In these meetings, Andrei won with a score of 2: 1 in sets. Between them, Medvedev and Rublev had four tie-breaks and Daniil won three.
Who will win today? Who has more chances? The bookmakers bet on Medvedev’s victory (odds 1.24). Argument – Daniil eliminated Djokovic from the tournament. That is, the thought is: even if Novak could not stop Medvedev… Rublev’s success is estimated at 4.40 points. That is to say, they believe little in Andrey’s victory. Meanwhile, Rublev is playing better and better in this game-to-game tournament. And, it is possible that in the final Andrei will show his best tennis in recent years. Five match points played in the duel with Davidovich-Fokina did their job – Rublev has gained enormous confidence on the field and will certainly not be a scapegoat in this fight. Andrei knows Medvedev’s weaknesses very well, just like Daniil knows Andrei’s weaknesses, so we are in a tenacious confrontation, and let the strongest win!
Tennis. APR. Dubai. The final. Medvedev – Rublev. Direct
The online text broadcast of this match will begin on SPORT.RU March 4 at the earliest at 6:10 p.m. Moscow time
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