Tsitsipas imagination kills Rublev

Concurrent and called to certify the generational change,

and

know each other from the lower categories.

The Greek has grown faster.

Not for nothing is the current champion of the ATP Finals, he has five titles and was planted in 2019 in the semifinals of the Australian Open.

However, in the three direct crosses he had never beaten Rublev, with the recent memory of the final in Hamburg, where the Russian claimed his third title of the season, after Doha and Adelaide.

In Paris, he managed to reverse the trend by winning 7-5, 6-2 and 6-3, in one hour and 55 minutes, to place himself among the top four at Roland Garros for the first time.

The two reached the quarterfinals with survival drills: Tsitsipas got out of trouble against

and Rublev escaped from the clutches of

.

Their meeting in the Roland Garros quarterfinals responded to the same expectations.

Rublev broke early and served at 5-4, but failed to manage the lead and let go of three straight games until losing the set.

Both temperamental, the Hellenic more creative, Rublev was weighed down by becoming stuck in the box, where he only had a comfortable match, against Kevin Anderson, in the third round.

One more step

Tsitsipas doesn't want to become just another player.

Within an irregular trajectory, which has stopped his progression, the fifth seed seeks to consolidate himself as a threat against the established order.

It has class and facade for it.

Once ahead of the game, he tried to introduce something new, to speed up the exchanges with the search for different formulas, whether it was changing heights, bringing the Russian to the net or leaning himself on the tape.

It did not suit him to stay at the expense of his opponent's granite set.

The Muscovite, a disciplined and hardworking boy who trains in Barcelona under former Spanish player

, has good

and hits the ball early.

This is how it can subject opponents to a high rally rate, difficult to bear.

Tsitsipas escaped from that dynamic and managed to break in the sixth game of the second set, a gap that would be good to widen the score.

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