Summary and highlights of Novak Djokovic 2-0 Stefanos Tsitsipas IN ATP Rome Final

Thank you all for joining us in this intense duel with an exciting ending, it has been a pleasure to be with all of you. See you all again!

 

Novak Djokovic wins in the tie break and closes the match

Blank game by Novak Djokovic and the second set will be decided in the tie break;

Stefanos Tsitsipas responds with a clean sheet to secure a tie break in the second set

The Serbian tennis player does not fail and wins with the service 

Number 1 breaks serve and could tie the second set on serve

Novak Djokovic wins again with his serve 

Tsitsipas started losing the game and is now only one game away from winning the second set.

Novak Djokovic suffered to win with his serve, even having to save a break point;

Number 5 wins with the service and with this game confirms the break of serve

Tsitsipas breaks serve to take the lead in the second set

The Greek wins on serve to win the second game of the match.

Blank set for number 1

Stefanos Tsitsipas wins the first game of the match.

Djokovic wins with a set in white and gets closer to winning the ATP Rome title

What a start for the Serbian 5-0 and serve to close the first set.

Another close game on serve for Novak Djokovic to increase the lead in the first set

The Serbian tennis player breaks serve again to take a 3-0 lead

Convenient game with serve for number 1 confirming the breakage

Novak Djokovic starts winning the game by breaking serve with the rest in white game 

The draw has been decided and it has been decided that Stefanos Tsitsiàs will start with a draw;

Round of 16 2-1 Dmitrov
Round of 16 2-1 Khachanov 
Quarterfinals 2-0 Sinner
Semifinals 2-1 Zverev

Round of 16 2-0 Karatsev

Round of 16 2-0 Warinka

Quarterfinals 2-0 Auger Aliassame

Semifinal 2-0 Ruud

 

The 23-year-old tennis player has played many tournaments and is the player with the most victories this year, with a total of 31;

In the balance of the last three finals of the Serbian tennis player in the final, are two defeats, both against Rafael Nadal and a victory;

The four times that the Serb and the Greek have faced each other on this surface, all the victories have been for Novak Djokovic.

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Brazil: 10:00 hrs.

Chile: 9:00 hrs.

Colombia: 9:00 hrs.

Ecuador: 9:00 hrs.

Spain: 16:00 hrs.

México: 9:00 hrs.

Paraguay: 10: 00 hrs.

Peru: 9:00 hrs.

Uruguay: 11:00 hrs.

England: 15: 00 hrs

EEUU:10:00 hrs.

Australia: 00:00 hrs.

India: 19:15 hrs

I think the match was a high level of tennis. The conditions were not the most favorable because playing at night, the ball goes slower and bounces much less. Fortunately I was able to adapt to the situation and get the victory. It is the first time I faced him. I know him very well, but we had never met in competition. He has a serve that is lethal and is a big difference when you train with him to when you play in competition (laughs). It was very difficult to return Félix's serves. In general he is a very complete player and he is at a great level. During the second set when I was 5-2 up, I thought the match was more or less solved, but Fé lix raised the level a lot and complicated the match until the end. Everything that happened from that point on was more of a rite of passage for him because the truth is that his reaction was incredible.
 

Stefanos Tsistsipas arrives in a good moment of his career, despite the fact that in the American tour it was not good being eliminated in the round of 16 in Indian Wells and in the Miami ATP in the round of 16. Afterwards, he won the ATP Monte Carlo tournament. While at the Barcelona ATP he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Carlos Alcaraz. A week later at the ATP Madrid he was at the gates of the final, but Zverev eliminated him in the third and final set. In the Rome ATP he took revenge on the German by eliminating him in the semifinals. He has also left out other players such as Rublev, Dimitrov or Pouille;

The number 1 has played few tournaments in this 2022, because it has not been vaccinated and that has caused him to be deprived of the big tournaments of this start of the year. He could not be in the Australian Open, despite the politics, nor in the U.S. tour, although he had registered. In his first tournament he defeated the Italian Musetti by a double 6-3. In the round of 16 he defeated Russian Kchanov 6-3, 7-6. However, in the quarterfinals he was surprised by Vasley and the Czech left out of the tournament the number 1, which he still is despite the few matches he has played this year and only lost a week to the Russian Medvedev, who is now on leave after having to undergo surgery. While in the ATP Monte Carlo he was eliminated in the first round by the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich and in the ATP Belgrade tournament he performed well reaching the final. Although he could not win the title, as he was defeated by the Russian Rublev.  In the Madrid Open 2022 he reached the semifinal where he was surprised by the young Carlos Alcaraz. While in the Rome ATP he has not conceded in any set in the whole tournament and has already left out of his way Karatsev, Warinka and Auger Aliassame.

 

Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas have met again and again with a favorable balance for the Serbian tennis player who has won six times, while the Greek has won only three times. The first time they faced each other was in 2018 in the round of 16 of the Toronto ATP, where Stefanos Tsitsipas won in three sets. They have already met on one occasion at the ATP Rome, but it was in a different round, just last year but it happened in the quarterfinals where the Greek tennis player won the first set by 4-6, but Novak Djokovic came back to win by a double 7-5. On three occasions they have met in a final, one in the Madrid ATP, another in the final of Roland Garros and another in the final of the Dubia ATP, in all of them the winner of the match was Novak Djokovic;

 

Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas se medir n in the final del ATP de Roma, in search of achieving the title in this Italian circuit, all this before disputing the Ronland Garros nbsp;
 

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