For the second straight year, Stefanos Tsitsipas of Athens, Greece has won the 2022 Monte Carlo Masters. After beating Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-3 in the 2021 Monte Carlo Masters final, Tsitsipas defeated Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain 6-3, 7-6 in the 2022 Monte Carlo Masters final on Sunday.
It was a memorable week for Davidovich Fokina, who delivered the upset of the tournament. In the second round, the 22-year-old Spaniard knocked out world number one Novak Djokovic of Serbia, 6-3, 6-7, 6-1.
In the men’s final, Davidovich Fokina broke Tsitsipas early to take a 2-1 lead, however Tsitsipas came back with an immediate break back to tie the set at two games apiece. Then after the set was tied at three, Tsitsipas won the final three games to win the first set 6-3.
Then in the second set, Tsitsipas broke Davidovich Fokina with the set tied at four to take a 5-4 lead. Tsitsipas was then serving for the match, but was broken by Davidovich Fokina, who tie the set at five. The set would go to a tiebreak, which Tsitsipas controlled, winning 7-3.
Among the other players Tsitsipas defeated at the 2022 Monte Carlo Masters were Fabio Fognini of Italy, 6-3, 6-0 in the second round, Laslo Djere of Serbia, 7-5, 7-6 in the third round, Diego Schwartzman of Argentina, 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 in the quarterfinals, and Alexander Zverev of Germany, 6-4, 6-2, in the semifinals. Of Tsitsipas’s four wins leading up to the final, the two most notable wins came over Fognini and Zverev. Fognini won the 2019 Monte Carlo Masters, and Tsitsipas only lost three games to the veteran Italian. Zverev meanwhile is still being allowed to compete despite his inappropriate behaviour at the Mexican Open earlier this year and despite the fact he was given an eight-week ban. We do not know when this ban is set to start, because Zverev was allowed to compete in Monte Carlo, Miami and Indian Wells.
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