The Russian passes in two sets 7-5 7-5 over the Greek. “I’m as happy as when you’re at the bar and dancing completely drunk.” If he wins he will beat the Dane in the final (Sunday at 16) he will become him no. 2 in the world
When the two of them are involved, drama is guaranteed. From the beginning, right from the usual photo on the net after the draw. Photo, and therefore ritual, which did not take place because Daniil Medvedev really didn’t want to know about taking a photo with the “enemy” Tsitsipas who beat clearly, in two sets, with a double 7-5 to reach the first final than a Masters 1000 on clay. The Russian got off to a good start, with the desire to fight escaping from all sides. But he starts well, immediately breaks the serve from the more earthly rival and calms down. He plays well, the other less so, the rain comes down first lightly, then more heavily, it’s against breakkare and at 4-4, when the rain comes down heavier he insists on stopping. In the end Layani decides to stop the game and start a new odyssey. Inside, outside, let’s start again, or rather not. It’s raining, it doesn’t stop, it’s raining. Tsitsipas warms up five times with the trainer between jogs in the corridor of the Central and games of agility and reflexes. In the end, after almost three hours, they come back but it’s not over, they play a game and it starts raining again. They return to the field after more than an hour and this time they go all the way. Medvedev wins the first set, Tsitsipas is the protagonist of the usual curtain with her mother who leaves the box after being “reproached” for speaking Russian and therefore facilitating her rival.
FINAL AND BALLET
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In the second set the Russian starts ahead again and with the break he goes 2-0 then, like in the first, partial the Greek returns for 3-3. But the Russian is centered, he attacks, he no longer looks like a cow on the ice as he said he felt when he “hated” the red clay and in the 11th game he breaks the Greek again going to close 7-5.
A ballet of joy follows in the jubilation of the Central which is now waiting for a super sparkling final between the two hotheads of the tournament. “Of course I danced! When I won the US Open. You know I like GIFs and this is from when you’re at the bar dancing completely drunk… I’m so happy to have reached the first 1000m final on clay, can’t see the Time to play it with Rune. I had a great time, even in the rain. Normally I would have been angry, but tonight I took it well because it was a funny situation.” If he were to win the title tomorrow against Rune (at 4 pm, live on Sky), Medvedev would overtake Novak Djokovic, climbing to number 2 in the ranking.