One year less a day. This is the time that has passed since Stefanos Cicifas won last year’s Monte Carlo tournament, when he then defeated Andrei Rublev 3: 6, 3: 6. Today (Sunday) Tsitsipas repeated the achievement from last season, when he defeated the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich Pokina 3: 6, 6: 7 in the final of the tournament. In addition, this is also the Greek’s first final in the Masters tournament, since the Monte Carlo final in 2021.
The game started very close, with the Spaniard breaking the Greek on the way to 2: 2, but the rest of the first set was all Tsitsipas. When he defeats his opponent in four of the next five games, on the way to 0: 1 in half an hour. The second act was already a completely different story.
A very close second set almost ended in a victory for the Spaniard, but in the end it was the Greek who won the tie-breaker, which gave him the title for the second time in a row. Despite the loss, it is a tournament that is an achievement for Davidovich Fokina, who defeated Novak Djokovic, Taylor Fritz and Gregor Dimitrov on the way.
