While the quarter -final between Roger Federer vs Nikoloz Basilashvili has not ended, the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open 2021 tennis tournament happened a big surprise when Denis Shapovalov had to stop before the player ranked 33 ATP – Taylor Fritz.
Before entering the match, with the difference on the ATP rankings, of course Shapovalov is the name that is highly appreciated by the experts as well as the audience than the opponent.
However, everything happened completely against all the initial predictions.
Shapovalov joined the mind of the “upper door” tennis player and won the first set of the first set with a score of 7-5.
Entering the second set, Shapovalov let the opponent robbed the break in the game 2, causing the game to start changing.
On that occasion, Fritz quickly rises and won set 2 with a score of 6-3.
Not only regained the spirit, the player ranked 33th in the world as well as when continuing to break the opponent's gaming game right at the game 1 set 3.
The last games witnessed the extremely drastic struggle between the two players when the break was divided evenly.
In an extremely sublime competition, Taylor Fritz did not let Shapovalov have the opportunity to correct and win 7-5 in the third set to get the final victory 2-1.
This victory helped Taylor Fritz continue to the semi -finals of Qatar Open and his opponent in the next match will be the winner in the match between Roger Federer vs Nikoloz Basilashvili.