{"id":53415,"date":"2022-11-17T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=53415"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T14:30:36","slug":"stefanos-tsitsipas-medvedev-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/11\/17\/stefanos-tsitsipas-medvedev-atp-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Three keys to Stefanos Tsitsipas&#8217; win over Daniil Medvedev at the ATP Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece beat Daniil Medvedev 6-3 6-7 7-6 in a Red Group match of the ATP Finals on Wednesday to boost his chances of qualifying for the semifinal. The match lasted well over two hours as the 24-year-old Greek managed to assert his supremacy in the end.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Medvedev thus bowed out of the tournament as <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/08\/31\/daniil-medvedev-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">his underwhelming run in big events<\/a> continued.<\/p>\n<h2>Three keys to Stefanos Tsitsipas&#8217; win over Daniil Medvedev at the ATP Finals<\/h2>\n<h4>#1. Tsitsipas showed great net-skills to keep the pressure on:<\/h4>\n<p>Tsitsipas rushed the net quite frequently from the very beginning and also exhibited consummate net-skills to win points through volleys. Medvedev kept trying to pass him, but often failed in his endeavour as the Greek won 93% of the points in net in the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas broke Medvedev in the second game and then held his serve to go 3-0 up. He then managed to maintain his lead for the remainder of the set to draw the first blood.<\/p>\n<h4>#2. Medvedev fought tooth and nail in the second set:<\/h4>\n<p>Medvedev started playing the drop shot more often as the match progressed, but that tactic often backfired as Tsitsipas managed to chase the ball down on most occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek also dictated terms quite a few times by moving the Russian from side to side with his groundstrokes off the forehand. Tsitsipas also held his own with his backhand as Medvedev had to save a few match points in the second set tie-break to stay in the match. The Russian&#8217;s perseverance paid off in the end as he somehow did enough to win the tie-break 13-11.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"XKKc3XLhSIdLXkgC-R3tAw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1442029524\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'XKKc3XLhSIdLXkgC-R3tAw',sig:'flGiJDTjZCUG85PrN4y5HNh2W2QpUO2Uv9Enk51YI04=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1442029524',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>#3. Tsitsipas came back from behind to win the third set:<\/h4>\n<p>Tsitsipas opted for serve-and-volley quite a few times in the third set, but fell behind as the Russian managed to break him and go 5-3 up. Just as the Russian served for the match, Tsitsipas succeeded in breaking him and then took the set to yet another tie-break.<\/p>\n<p>The tie-break proved to be a cakewalk for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/01\/20\/stefanos-tsitsipas-tomas-berdych-lost-generation\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the Greek<\/a> as Medvedev handed him the momentum by hitting a drop shot into the net. Tsitsipas then built on the lead to win the tie-break 7-1 and thereby keep his hopes alive in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece beat Daniil Medvedev 6-3 6-7 7-6 in a Red Group match of the ATP Finals on Wednesday to boost his chances of qualifying for the semifinal. The match lasted well over two hours as the 24-year-old Greek managed to assert his supremacy in the end. The 26-year-old Medvedev thus bowed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":49759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18386,2789,304],"class_list":["post-53415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","tag-2022-atp-finals","tag-daniil-medevedev","tag-stefanos-tsitsipas"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}