Germany’s Alexander Zverev wins his trophy after winning the ATP World Tour Finals singles final tennis match at the Pala Alpitore in Turin, Italy, on Sunday, November 21, 2021.
Highlight
- US Open champion Medvedev won the event last year and beat Zverev five times in a row
- The title completed a year for Zverev, who also won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
- The main thing missing in Zverev’s trophy collection is the Grand Slam trophy
If Alexander Zverev’s performance this weekend is any indication, a lot can be expected from the third-placed German in 2022.
Zverev earned his second title in the ATP Finals by defeating the top two players in consecutive matches.
After beating No. 1 Novak Djokovic in three sets in the semi-finals, Zverev put on a stellar performance to beat No. 2 Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-4 in Sunday’s final.
US Open champion Medvedev won the event last year and defeated Zverev five times in a row.
“There’s no way to end the season better than to win here,” Zverev said. “I too am already looking forward to next year.”
The title is quite a year for Zverev, who also won gold at the Tokyo Olympics and who now ends in 2021 with more victories on the Tour – 59, one more than Medvedev – than anyone else.
The main thing missing in Zverev’s trophy collection is the Grand Slam trophy, having lost an epic final to Dominic Thiem in the US Open final last year.
The final was a rematch of Tuesday’s round-robin match, when Medvedev defeated Zverev in a third-set tiebreaker.
It went Zverev’s way from the start, as the 6-foot-6 (1.98-m) player crushed a giant backhand into the corner, then a net-cord winner to break Medvedev’s serve in the third game of the match. receive from.
Helped by sharp conditions inside the Pala Alpitore, Zverev was virtually untouchable on his serve, winning 20 of 25 points with his serve in the first set.
Zverev broke again in the opening game of the second set and was then so confident that he began executing audacious swing-volley winners as he followed his serve over the net on occasion.
Zverev ended it on his first match point – with an ace on the second serve.
It marks the first edition of a season-ending event for the top eight players in Turin – after 12 years in London, where Zverev won his first finals title in 2018.
Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut defeated Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury 6-4, 7-6 (0) to win the doubles title.
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