ATP Finals, Alexander Zverev gets the better of Casper Ruud
ATP Finals, Alexander Zverev gets the better of Casper Ruud
In the fourth match of the John Newcombe Group of the ATP Finals in Turin, Germany’s Alexander Zverev, world number 2, defeated Norway’s Casper Ruud, number 7, with a score of 7-6 6-3.
No break and no break ball in the first set, but in the tie-break Zverev dominated, flying to 3-0 and then 6-1, missing the first two set points but the third è the good one and winning 7-3.
Also in the second bset no break until 4-3 in Zverev’s favor, when Sascha breaks Ruud’s serve and in the next game closes the match after one’hour and 25 minutes of play holding the serve to zero, in whose games he lost only 11 points in the whole match,
In the last two matches of the round, the German will meet Carlos Alcaraz and will only need to win one set to clinch the semifinals, while the Norwegian will face Andrey Rublev of Russia and will have to beat him to hope to land in the top four.
