At Paris Masters 2021, all three leading players of the Next Gen generation Stefanos Tsitsipas, Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev are present. They are considered the counterweight of the world's No. 1 player Novak Djokovic, also the top candidates for the championship.
However, on the way to conquer the throne, Tsitsipas had to stop early in the second round. Last night and early this morning, these two players had a relatively hard victory to win tickets to the quarterfinals.
In this round, Zverev went to the front, with the number 16 Grigor Dimitrov. In Paris, the two players brought the audience an extremely attractive match. That was shown right from the first set, when they had to enter the tie-break series to delimit the victory. In the gun battle series, Zverev is a more brave player and won 7-4.
Set set 2, the script in set 1 is repeated. Accordingly, Zverev and Dimitrov continue to mix 6-6 after 12 games and once again use a series of tie-breaks. Drawing on experience in the first half, Dimitrov played very well in this gun battle series. He has 3 times to win the miniBreak compared to 1 of Zverev, thereby winning 7-3 and balancing the score 1-1.
Entering the 3 decision set, Zverev is a more brave person. After chasing the tension, the German player continuously won the break in games 7 and 9, then closed the dramatic match with victory 6-4.
Meanwhile, the No. 2 seed of Medvedev also has to go through the match that is not very easy in this round. The Russian tennis player lost to Sebastian Kora 4-6 right in Set 1, then won 6-1 and 6-3 in the following 2 sets.
Thus, both Zverev and Medvedev won tickets to the quarterfinals. Here, Zverev will meet the No. 6 seed Casper Ruud, while Medvedev encountered Hugo Gaston. On the other branch, Djokovic has a competition with Taylor Fritz.
