Stefanos Tsitsipas, 5th in the world, won the Monte-Carlo Masters 1000 on Sunday for the second consecutive year by beating Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich (46th) 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) in the final.

The Greek thus becomes at 23 the sixth player to retain his title in the first major clay-court tournament of the season, alongside Ilie Nastase (1971-1973), Björn Borg (1979-1980), Thomas Muster (1995 -1996), Juan Carlos Ferrero (2002-2003) and Rafael Nadal (2005-2012 and 2016-2018).

Tsitsipas, another clay court player

After a few games in which he was slow to get going, Tsitsipas found the right fuel: from 3-3 in the first set, he lined up five consecutive games to complete the first set and break away 2- 0 in the second.

Taking advantage of countless unforced errors from Davidovich, obviously out of energy after a grueling tournament in which he notably obtained his greatest victory by beating world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the second round, Tsitsipas seemed on track to go lift the trophy quickly and without shaking.

While the Greek only seemed to have to play his opponent until he made the mistake, he, in turn, experienced a few minutes of loss of concentration.

Davidovich, supported by the public, took the opportunity to unbreak and thus return to 2-2 and in the match.

The Greek nevertheless managed the break to lead 5-4 and serve to win the match.

But, lost for lost, the Spaniard with mismatched socks dropped all his shots and equalized at 5-5.

A court-side view of the winning moment đź‘Ś pic.twitter.com/qNOvPucnoR

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Revenge against Djoko at Roland?

The tie break was dominated by Tsitsipas and, as a symbol, the two men found themselves on the ground while the match point was still rolling on the court: Davidovich because he had just made his last dive of the tournament, and Tsitsipas because the ball had just bounced out of bounds and it was sacred.

Last year, a few weeks after winning his first Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo, Tsitsipas led two sets to zero against Novak Djokovic in the Roland-Garros final before losing.

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