Andrey Rublev aces Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3 7-6(2) in the semifinal in Rotterdam on Saturday. Rublev will seek to keep on going in this event against Marton Fucsovics in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the quarter in 2018 and 2020. Here you can see his history at this event.
Rublev added to his prize money € 19,000 after winning this match. He has won already € 66,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Rublev will add € 23,265 to his earnings to get in total € 89,265 in total.
Rublev was glad about the result. He commented:
“I play at the best level, to play at the best tournaments, to try to compete, then to go deep and to try to win them. A final is always special, so I am going to try to do my best tomorrow.”
Highlights Andrey Rublev vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament – Rotterdam
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:37
At the end of the match, Andrey scored 79 points vs. the Greek’s 63.
Rublev
Andrey served pretty well to win 84% of the points (36/43) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (14/28) on his second serve. Rublev was effective at converting 67% of the break points that he procured (2/3).
Tsitsipas
On the other side, Tsitsipas wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Rublev and Tsitsipas is 4-3 for Andrey.
Draw and next match H2H: Andrey Rublev vs. Marton Fucsovics – stats
Rublev will play Fucsovics in the final.
This will be the 4th time that Andrey Rublev and Marton Fucsovics square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Fucsovics (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played each other, Fucsovics won 6-2 6-4 5-7 2-6 6-3 in the Rubber 1 in 1 back in 2017.
Live score progression and stats
Rublev won the set after he broke the Greek in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 9th (6-3) game.
Andrey converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (3-1 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40). On the other side, Stefanos was unable to convert any of his 5 break points. He had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (1-2 30-40), the 6th (2-3 30-40) and the 8th game (3-4 30-40, 40-A and 40-A).
They played 63 points. The Russian conquered the set after winning 5 points more than the Greek (34-29). The Russian conceded 13 points on serve (21-13). In addition, on the other side, the Greek conceded 13 points on serve (16-13).
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Rublev had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-2.
Tiebreak
Rublev won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 3rd (3-0), 8th (6-2) and 9th (7-2) point. On the other side, Tsitsipas won 2 minibreaks in the 6th (1-5) and 7th (2-5) point.
Andrey won the tiebreak 7-2 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-1, 5-2, 6-2, 7-c
They played 78 points. The Russian conquered the set after winning 12 points more than Tsitsipas (45-33). Andrey surrendered 7 points on serve (28-7). In addition, on the other side, Stefanos conceded 17 points on serve (26-17).
Tennis Scores in Rotterdam
- Andrey RublevRublev – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (6-3 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Borna CoricCoric (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Andrey RublevRublev (2-1) – H2H details and stats
