Madrid, Andrey Rublev is the first finalist: Taylor Fritz knocked out

Masters 1000 Madrid: Andrey Rublev-Taylor Fritz 6-4 6-3

Andrey Rublev è the first finalist of the Madrid Masters 1000. The Russian tennis player, in fact, folded the American Taylor Fritz in two sets with a score of 6-4 6-3, clinching the chance to win the tournament against the winner of the match between Felix Auger-Aliassime and Jiri Lehecka.

The match starts immediately uphill for Rublev, who accomplice a few too many errors, ends up immediately down by a break. The Russian, however, managed to remain lucid and taking advantage of Fritz’s difficulties on serve, he managed first to bring the score back to even and then to overturn the result, closing the first set on 6-4.

The second partial developed along the lines of the finale of the first, with the world number 8 waiting for the propitious moment to place the decisive stretch. In the sixth game came the break by Rublev, who managed to manage it until the final 6-3.