Before the Canadian Open 2025 quarter -finals, Alexei Popyrin owned a series of 9 wins at ATP Masters 1000 Canada. Last year, he won the championship after defeating Andree Rubleev in the final. However, that impressive series was blocked.
This morning, Popyrin encountered Alexander Zverev in the quarterfinals. The Australian player won the first set with a light volley touching the edge of the net and fell on the opponent's yard. However, Zverev quickly regained the game thanks to his calm and professional.
Despite making mistakes and losing the only serve game in the two set, the world's No. 3 player won 5 consecutive games from the score 4-4 to completely overturned the game. According to statistics, Zverev won up to 82% of the score from the serve, and won 16 of the last 17 points when holding the serve. He ended the match with an exemplary Drop-Volley.
In the end, Zverev came back successfully to win 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3. In the semi -finals, he will face Karen Khachanov (seed No. 11), who has just defeated Alex Michelsen (No. 26) in the semi -final 2.
This is the 75th time Zverev reached the semi -finals of an ATP Tour system. Among the players who play, only Novak Djokovic has a better achievement with 196 times. As for the Masters 1000, this is the 21st semi -final of the German tennis player.
Sharing after the match, Zverev said: “I have to adjust the ball to catch the ball early, because he serve the serene very strongly, and when he entered the reel, it was difficult to neutralize. I did it from set two onwards. Honestly, I have nothing to complain. Apart from a slightly subjective gaming game in the two sets, everything is fine.”
