Video tennis Sinner – Zverev: Critical break point, wake up in time (Monte Carlo Quarterfinals)

(Tennis video Jannik Sinner – Alexander Zverev, quarterfinals of Monte Carlo) Although he was rated as the top door before Sinner, Zverev had to go through moments of suffocating tension.

With the number 1 contender for the Monte Carlo championship when the top seeds were all dropped, Alexander Zverev entered the quarter-finals against Jannik Sinner with high confidence. The German star even won an important break in the 4th game of the first set.

Zverev faced many difficulties before Sinner’s fighting power

However, Sinner has proven that when in abundant physical conditions, he is still a very unpredictable opponent. The brightest talent of tennis Italy regained the break in the 7th game and then quickly brought the match to 4-4. Not stopping there, Sinner continued to break in the 11th game and ended the first set with a dramatic 7-5 victory.

Set 2 witnessed the great efforts of both players. After letting Sinner break in game 3, Zverev quickly equalized in the next game. The upstream performance of the German player in this set was concretized in game 8 with a hinge break point, before setting a 6-3 victory in set 2.

The drama was pushed to the climax in the decisive 3rd set. Zverev started better with a break point in game 3 but let Sinner regain what he lost in the next game. Excellent break in game 7, thought that Zverev would easily close the match, but in game 10, when the score was 5-4, the world number 3 player suddenly let Sinner save and equalize 5 -5 unbelievably.

After that, the two players were forced to enter a tie-break series to determine the final victory. Here, Zverev showed his bravery with a decisive 7-5 victory after Sinner’s shot didn’t go over the net. Struggling to reach the semi-finals after more than 3 hours of play, Zverev will face Diego Schwartzman or Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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