Stefanos Tsitsipas is the first Roland Garros finalist. The Greek tennis player made the predictions good and although with great difficulties, he beat Alexander Zverev in five sets (6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3) to get into the final for the title. Tsitsipas did not make a good 2-0 lead after a brilliant start and watched as Zverev put the tables, but after three and a half hours of play, he ended the resistance of his rival and will make his debut in the final match in Paris.
Tsitsipas was the light favorite in a duel between two of the great candidates to relieve Djokovic and Nadal at the top of world tennis. The Greek is theoretically superior on clay, and this gave him a minimal advantage to endorse on a Philippe Chatrier track that was hot, due to the weather and the crowd, and prepared to experience a great show in the first semi-final.
Controlling the attacks of a contrasted puncher like Sascha and with the solidity at the service of the great fighters, Tsitsipas combined two qualities that launched him fully towards the final. The first set did not have a history, nor a great advantage, but Stefanos placed an undeniable.
Within the Germanic of the script of the first set, the second went crazy a meeting in which he would start dominating Zverev to lose his advantage in an incomprehensible way to the benefit of his rival. Tsitsipas waited for Sascha’s blackout, which came intensely and with a ruthless partial of explaining the 2-0.
Zverev’s inert comeback
Stefanos caressed the final but Zverev had not said his last word. The German shot quality and power to get ahead early in the third and build from there with his serve. Not a loophole for Tsitsipas , who saw how in the fourth, Sascha repeated the formula and placed the tables in anticipation of a thrilling fifth set.
The forces were depleted and if Zverev gained in morale, Tsitsipas maintained the physical advantage. The Greek did not pay the hard blow of the comeback of his rival and was placed in front, in a game of relaxation of the German to the serve that in the end would be worth to culminate the first final of the Greek tennis player in Roland Garros. Djokovic or Nadal will be his rival at the end of the party in Paris.
