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Sunday, 11/22/2020 08:30 AM (GMT + 7)
(Sports news, tennis news) Novak Djokovic has Dominic Thiem to praise, who just seeded him in the semi-finals of this year’s ATP Finals. And Rafael Nadal has one more year to go with the championship that brings together 8 of the best pits of the year world ball village.
Video of this year’s “sweltering” ATP Finals semi-final match between Dominic Thiem and Novak Djokovic:
Last night and at dawn this morning (November 21 and 22 Vietnam time), two semi-final pairs of the 2020 ATP Finals were held at the Central Stadium on the indoor hard court of the O2 Arena with many interesting developments. extreme shocks. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, two seeds No. 1 and No. 2 of the tournament had to stop before the most talented juniors of the “ATP Next Gen” generation: Dominic Thiem and Daniil Medvedev.
Djokovic and Nadal missed the “dream final” at this year’s ATP Finals
In the first semifinal match, Djokovic fell to Thiem with the score 7-5, 6-7 (10-12), 7-6 (7-5) respectively after 3 sets. Also in the second semifinals, Nadal was reversed by Medvedev with the score 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 3-6.
The 2020 season will be the second time in 50 years the ATP Finals have seen six different men’s singles championships for six years in a row. The first time this happened was in the period 1974-1979.
Thiem or Medvedev, if they are crowned after the final at the O2 Arena at 1am (November 23, Vietnam time), they will “follow the golden heel” of the players who once claimed the “bowl of heroism “. “This in the last 5 years, including Novak Djokovic (2015), Andy Murray (2016), Grigor Dimitrov (2017), Alexander Zverev (2018) and Stefanos Tsitsipas (2019).
Will Medvedev or Thiem be crowned for the first time in the tournament that brings together the 8 best male players of the season?
With Djokovic, the dream of winning the 2020 ATP Finals to level the record of 6 times by topping this tournament as Roger Federer has “melted into smoke.” “Express train” has reason to rejoice when he remains the ATP Finals trophy winner most of the time in history.
Federer still holds the record for 6 ATP Finals championships, more than Djokovic exactly once to win the cup, while Nadal has never won this prestigious tournament.
Sharing on the ATP homepage after his loss to Thiem, Djokovic said bitterly: “What he (Thiem) has done since going 0-4 in a series of three tiebreakers is extraordinary. My whole first serve. it seemed to have been “crushed” by him.
The difference is that when you do your best, things can go well, but sometimes they just don’t. I had to “tip my hat” to congratulate him. The truth is, I don’t think I played bad when I went 4-0 in series 3 of the tiebreaker set, “Nole said.
And Thiem, the Austrian tennis player, could not hide his happiness for the second year in a row to reach the final of the ATP Finals. The third star in the world ranking said: “I did my best from the group stage to the semifinals to reach the final. Of course, I will try at all costs to win the title.
Meanwhile, Medvedev shared on the sweet feeling of having a spectacular escape to knock out Nadal: “It felt really weird that he won a break and took me 5-4 in set 2, but I still won that set. I feel like I have. played the best tennis of my career. “
If he beats Thiem in the final tomorrow morning (23 November), Medvedev will become the fourth player in history to win the ATP Finals despite losing the opening match of the group stage. The Russian No. 4 seed just ended Nadal’s 71-game winning streak when “Gaur” won against his opponent in the first set.
Source: http: //danviet.vn/djokovic-va-nadal-hut-ve-chung-ket-atp-finals-federer-vui-mung-vi-le-gi-502020 …
(Tennis video, tennis results, Daniil Medvedev – Rafael Nadal, ATP Finals semi-finals) There have been unpredictable developments in the match …
