Medvedev also traces back to Thiem and wins the most important title of his career

Never give him up for dead.

always has something new to tell, an alternate tale that allows him to escape when he finds himself cornered.

He wrote it in the semifinals, against

, where he subtracted in the second set so as not to be eliminated, and again improvised it against

in a final where he was losing.

Do not trust his homeless air or his old appearance.

He is a dangerous guy, a serial killer who is not content to claim the heads of

and Nadal took the Austrian ahead, also the executioner of the first two men on the circuit.

The 24-year-old Russian won 4-6, 7-6 (2) and 6-4, in two hours and 42 minutes.

Since Djokovic won his fifth title in 2015, five different ATP Finals champions have succeeded:

,

,

,

and the newly inducted.

The last three are part of the avant-garde, where Dominic Thiem also plays with great merits.

The Austrian, who entered the world number three last March, opened space in the final by taking the fifth game, which his rival dominated 40-0.

Persevering, cleaning the bottom line from end to end in continuous lateral movements, with good variation in heights, he took it thanks to a double fault from his rival.

Thiem's ​​fatigue

But the demanding semi-final matches paid more dividends for Thiem.

Medvedev, who signed the victory against Nadal after midnight on Saturday, was seen loose, with his indecipherable tennis, full of variations.

He missed the set with a forehand from Thiem who poisoned himself after hitting the tape, but he searched his dispensary for solutions and ended up despairing of his rival, as he did with the other five tennis players who have been measured in this tournament .

Winner of the US Open and finalist of the Australian Open, Thiem passed for the player of the year.

The defeat, however, leaves him as a vulnerable tennis player, lacking the power of resolution in the final trances.

No one has beaten the

as many times as he has

, but he lacks reliability at crucial moments.

He has lost two Roland Garros finals, both against Nadal, fell to Djokovic in the Australian Open, gave up last year in the ATP Finals, against Tsitsipas, and won the US Open after lifting two adverse sets against Zverev , when he traveled again on the way to the scaffold.

He had a clear path to the title, with two attempts to the rest in the seventh game, the first of them, frank, with Medvedev sold on the net.

The slip ended up costing him the set after an erratic tiebreaker, weighed down by errors with the forehand.

The Russian always buys a return ticket.

Little certain with the

options

, he made the ninth profitable, in the fifth game of the third quarter, and gave a definitive turn to the meeting.

He won, like someone who doesn't want the thing.

He shook his opponent's hand and looked for his chair.

It is his ninth title, the second in a row, after the Masters 1000 in Paris-Bercy.

It is the greatest success of his career.

But he is unfazed.

Perhaps because the best is yet to come.

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