2024-05-11 22:43:52
Not all weeks are the same for Andrey Rublev. In Madrid, he won the tournament, rather calm on the court, spending most of his nights without much sleep due to various illnesses. But in Rome, on Saturday, the not-so-old demons took him back against Marco Giron, finalist from Dallas, whom he ended up dominating (5-7, 6-4, 7-5).
We often saw him get angry again, frustrated by these shortcomings of the day and the big strikes of the stocky American. Led one set to nothing, we believed that the Russian had done the hardest part by equalizing at one set all, then taking off with two shutouts led at a fast pace. But the inaccuracies, annoyances and resistance of the American disrupted the scenario. At 4-4, Rublev lost his serve on the fourth break point, before Giron, feverish at the end of the set, let go of his white commitment when serving for the match.
In this high-tension end of the match, the Russian finally escaped at 00:22 on his third match point. Rublev, who has never done better than the quarter-final here (in 2021), fought to get his ticket to the third round where Alexandre Müller awaits him. “ On the court, I was very angry for letting my emotions outreacted the winner. I missed a lot of opportunities because of that. I deserved to lose, but any victory is worth taking. »
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