Unsinkable. After having unbolted the statue of Commander Rafael Nadal after a fabulous fight in the semi-finals, "certainly (s) our best match at Roland Garros", the Serbian was able to finish the job on Sunday against Stefanos Tsitsipas, a player of twelve years his junior in full rise to the summits. “
I'm ready to put my skin on the court. (…) It is time for me to show that I am capable of playing against Novak
”, warned the ambitious leader of the Race 2021 (39 wins - 9 losses) who had almost knocked Nadal down in Barcelona, just after winning his first Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo in mid-April. But, for his first Grand Slam coronation, we will still have to wait.
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History repeated itself against the world number 1.
Like last season, in the semifinals, Tsitsipas gave in five sets against the Serbian with a radically different scenario, however.
Last fall, after going through it early in the match, the Athenian had pushed
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