Andriej Rubliow

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28 - Federer
23 - Rubliow
21 - Murray

Andrusza demoluje.

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28 - Federer
23 - Rubliow
21 - Murray

Andrusza demoluje.

Wygrana w Dubaju i finał kolejnej pięćsetki dają mu rekord.

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Ja mu kibicuję. Pracowity chłopak, należy się nagroda.

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Rublev Sets Red-Hot Russian Showdown Against Karatsev In Dubai

Spoiler:

Karatsev ousts Sinner in three sets
When Marton Fucsovics walked off Centre Court in Dubai Thursday evening, he told his opponent, Andrey Rublev, "I hope I don't play you anymore this year." The Hungarian is likely not the only player who has felt that way in 2021.

Rublev defeated Fucsovics 7-5, 6-2 to reach the semi-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The Russian has now won 23 consecutive matches at ATP 500 events, losing only five sets during that streak.

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"I have really great connection with Marton and we are good friends on Tour. I have a huge respect for him. All the matches that we've played each other were drama matches," Rublev said. "We just smiled because we always have tough matches against each other. It's not easy to play each other.

"It's always long rallies, it's always tough points and in the end we just smiled."


Rublev took advantage of nine Fucsovics double faults, including one on set point in the first set. The World No. 8 saved the only break point he faced, and he will now play ATP Cup teammate Aslan Karatsev, with whom he won last week's Doha doubles title.

"I just need to play my game, nothing more special. I don't know why, but I'm really excited to play this match because Aslan is playing really well now. He's full of confidence and I want to see how he's playing. I want to challenge myself, because he's winning really great matches."

Karatsev

Karatsev continued his strong start to the season on Thursday by reaching his first ATP 500 level semi-final. The Russian wild card hit 41 winners to earn a hard-fought 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-2 victory over No. 16 seed Jannik Sinner of Italy in two hours and 30 minutes. The 27-year-old is only the second wild card since 1998 to reach the Dubai semi-finals, following in the footsteps of Malek Jaziri three years ago.

“It was tough at the beginning as he is a really talented guy,” Karatsev said. “In the tie-break I was a little unlucky. I felt more comfortable in the second set and knew how to play against him.”

Last month, Karatsev became the first player in the Open Era to reach the semi-finals on his Grand Slam championship main draw debut at the Australian Open (l. to Djokovic). Having started the year at No. 112 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, Karatsev could break into the Top 30 on Monday if he goes on to lift the Dubai crown.


Sinner took a 4-1 lead in the first set and did well to remain focused after Karatsev had recovered to 4-4. The 19-year-old Italian needed three set points and a strong tie-break performance to clinch the 61-minute opener.

In a reversal of fortunes in the second set, it was Karatsev who won the first three games and grew in confidence. After an early exchange of breaks in the decider, Karatsev won five straight games from 1-2 down.

World No. 32 Sinner, who captured his second ATP Tour title last month at the Great Ocean Road Open (d. Travaglia), is now 9-4 on the season.

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Koniec serii Andrieja w ATP500. Stanęło na 23 kolejnych wygranych, co jest drugim wynikiem w historii. Za jakiś czas pewnie kolejny streak.

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Rublev Revving Up: Rublev has been the king of ATP 500 events. He won four titles in a row at that level and racked up a streak of 23 consecutive wins that only came to an end last week in Acapulco. But at ATP Masters 1000s, it has been a different story. The Russian player has only advanced past the fourth round once, when he made the quarter-finals at the 2019 Western & Southern Open, thanks to a victory against Roger Federer. Rublev showed comfort in Miami two years ago, where as a qualifier he advanced to the third round.

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Prognozowana droga Rubliowa po tytuł w Miami:


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Rublev: 'I'm Afraid That I'm Just Lucky'

Spoiler:

The Russian is the fourth seed in Miami
At the 2019 Miami Open presented by Itau, Andrey Rublev was at a low point. The Russian was the No. 99 player in the FedEx ATP Rankings and he had to go through qualifying after struggling with a lower back stress fracture the year before. He wasn’t dreaming of how quickly he could climb towards the top of the sport.

“I stopped thinking how it’s going to be and what to expect, because I was doing this maybe a bit before. The previous year I was thinking, ‘Oh, if it’s going well, maybe soon I’m going to be Top 20 or soon I’m going to be even higher’. In the end, no, I was injured, [and I fell] outside of the Top 100,” Rublev said. “Since that moment, I stopped thinking how it’s going to be… I’m thinking now about what to do to be better and that’s it.

“Because of injuries and all these situations, it helped me to be completely clear.”

Two years later, Rublev is one of the hottest players on the ATP Tour and firmly inside the world’s Top 10. Perhaps what makes Rublev stand out is that no matter how many titles he wins — the 23-year-old has lifted six individual trophies since the start of last season and helped Russia to ATP Cup glory this February — he is constantly searching for ways to improve.

“I want to be better and better. It’s not about what I’m doing now or what I did. It’s about that I want to keep doing this for a long term. I want to keep being better,” Rublev told ATPTour.com last week. “I’m afraid that I’m just maybe lucky, that maybe I’m not good enough. So that’s why I want to keep working to be able to see if I can keep playing the same way, on the same level for a while.”


It is clear that Rublev’s success has not come because of luck — his 57-13 record since the start of 2020 speaks for itself. So why does the Russian fear he is not good enough?

“It’s this kind of fear that it’s not enough,” Rublev said. “Fear that I’m not going to make it or fear that I’m not going to be good enough for a while. In the end, this fear helped me to improve, and that’s why I want to improve and improve. Also maybe because… if I do one mistake, I want to repeat to make it perfect. I need to have everything perfect. This is a bit of a sick mentality, but in the end, for the moment, it [has] helped me.”

Some players have grown to fear playing Rublev, since they know it will take a tremendous effort to beat him. When Marton Fucsovics walked off Centre Court in Dubai last week following his loss against the eventual semi-finalist, he told Rublev, "I hope I don't play you anymore this year.”

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Ironically, Fucsovics is the first seeded opponent Rublev could play in Miami, if they both advance to the third round. The fourth seed will try to maintain his momentum at the season’s first ATP Masters 1000 event. The World No. 8 has a big opportunity at this level this year to gain points in the FedEx ATP Rankings, as he has only reached the last eight once at a Masters 1000 tournament.

Rublev, however, is not putting extra pressure on himself.

“I cannot control if I’m going to lose [in the] second round or not. In the end, it doesn’t matter which pressure you have, you cannot control it,” Rublev said. “If you win, you’re going to win it anyway. If you lose, it doesn’t matter what you’re going to do, or how much you’re going to think about it, you’re still going to lose. In the end, it’s just [important] to try to focus on yourself, on the things that you need to improve to do your best and that’s it.”

The fourth seed will begin his run against two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist Tennys Sandgren or Spaniard Pedro Martinez. No matter what happens, Rublev isn’t going to overthink his result.

“Even if I don’t do well here, I still have in a couple of weeks Monte Carlo. After Monte Carlo I have Rome, Madrid and Roland Garros. I will have chances and we’ll see,” Rublev said. “Even if I don’t do well in all of them, I still have next year, I still have the end of the year. In the end, all of us have pressure. We feel pressure. In the end, it’s a nice feeling to see how you deal with this.”

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Khachanov/Rublev Down Koolhof/Kubot In Miami

Spoiler:

Russians own 5-1 team record in Miami
Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev made a strong start to their Miami Open presented by Itau campaign on Thursday when they eliminated sixth seeds Wesley Koolhof and Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 6-2.

The unseeded pair saved seven of the eight break points they faced to record a 69-minute victory on Court 6. Khachanov and Rublev are chasing their maiden team title in Miami, following two runner-up finishes at ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. The Russians advanced to the championship match at this event in 2018 (l. to Bryan/Bryan) and also reached the 2019 Rolex Paris Masters final (l. to Herbert/Mahut).

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Last year’s Rolex Paris Masters champions Felix Auger-Aliassime and Hubert Hurkacz opened their Miami title bid with a 6-4, 6-3 win against Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen. The Canadian-Polish pair will face fourth seeds Ivan Dodig and Filip Polasek or Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin for a quarter-final spot.

Tim Puetz and Alexander Zverev also eliminated seeded opposition on Thursday. The Germans converted four of their seven break points to beat third seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-2, 6-4.

Taylor Fritz and John Isner marked their team debut with a 7-5, 6-3 win against Alexander Bublik and Adrian Mannarino. The Americans will meet second seeds Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic or countrymen Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey in the second round.

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Can Sandgren Slow Down The Rublev Onslaught In Miami?

Spoiler:

Tsitsipas begins his run against lucky loser Dzumhur
Beating Andrey Rublev has been one of the toughest challenges in tennis since the start of 2020. Tennys Sandgren, his opponent in the second round of the Miami Open presented by Itau, has proven himself a big-match player in the past. But can the two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist find good enough tennis on Saturday to send the roaring Rublev train off its tracks?

“I have to play my best if I want a shot to compete with him out there,” Sandgren said. “The last match we played wasn’t particularly competitive on my end. I watched him hit a lot of the winners. I felt like I was watching a lot of the match and wasn’t playing it.“

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Rublev defeated Sandgren 6-3, 6-3 in Hamburg last year in their first ATP Head2Head meeting. Although that was a clay-court match, the Russian was able to play his aggressive game, triumphing without facing a break point.

“I’m going to have to try to dictate some points and serve well and maybe hope he’s not totally on,” Sandgren said. “But he’s a great player, obviously playing fantastic tennis, good guy. Just hoping to have a good match out there.”


Sandgren has made life difficult for the sport’s stars in the past. At last year’s Australian Open, he held seven match points against Roger Federer in the quarter-finals before ultimately falling in five sets. The American, who enjoys watching defensive players like Andy Murray and Gael Monfils, knows he won’t be able to sit back against the ball-blasting Rublev.

“I’m not a good enough defender to defend against him, so I might have to be more aggressive, honestly. It’s not good enough out there to play too defensive against him,” Sandgren admitted. “I think any time I play somebody who is one of those guys who is one of the best players in the world right now, when I’ve gone out and played like that, I have to play more aggressive.”


Second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas will begin his Miami run against lucky loser Damir Dzumhur, who ousted former World No. 5 Kevin Anderson in the first round.

On paper, you’d expect 2019 Nitto ATP Finals champion Stefanos Tsitsipas to overwhelm the World No. 126 with his aggressive all-court game. But Dzumhur leads their ATP Head2Head series 3-1, with their most recent clash coming in Rotterdam in 2019.

“He’s getting the ball very early… he’s very aggressive and he doesn’t give you a lot of time ,” Dzumhur said. “I can take all the best and all the positives from those matches to try to keep doing that way. Of course it’s going to be another tough match.”

Other players who are in action Saturday are fifth seed Diego Schwartzman and sixth seed Denis Shapovalov, who will play Yasutaka Uchiyama and Ilya Ivashka, respectively.


But perhaps the match of the day will be between 10th seed Fabio Fognini and #NextGenATP American Sebastian Korda. Fognini is one of the cleanest ball-strikers on the ATP Tour, but he will face an inspired opponent in Korda, who never shies away from a big-hitting clash.

The 20-year-old looked sharp in dispatching Radu Albot 6-3, 6-0 in the first round. Korda broke through at Roland Garros last year by reaching the fourth round, but he quickly climbed into the Top 100 at the start of this season thanks to his run to the Delray Beach final and his subsequent ATP Challenger Tour title in Quimper, France.

Another #NextGenATP player, Lorenzo Musetti, will try to continue his torrid stretch against 23rd seed Benoit Paire, who scouted the Italian’s win against Michael Mmoh on Thursday evening. Both players are crafty, but Musetti brings to the court the edge in current form following his run to the Acapulco semi-finals.

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Rublev Rolls Past Sandgren In Miami

Spoiler:

Russian to face familiar foe in Fucsovics
Andrey Rublev dropped only three games on his way to the third round at the Miami Open presented by Itau, cruising past against Tennys Sandgren 6-1, 6-2 in a rain-interrupted clash on Saturday

The fourth seed has been one of the world's most in-form players, and he extended his Tour-leading wins count to 17 on the year after his Miami opener.

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Rublev’s controlled aggression was on display from the start on Grandstand at Hard Rock Stadium. The Russian No. 2 took the lead at 3-1 after converting his fourth break point, outlasting Sandgren in a marathon eight-minute game. But he needed just 59 seconds to consolidate to love with powerful first serves, and Rublev didn’t leave any openings for Sandgren as he closed out the opening set.

The fourth seed did not face a break point during the match, and he kept the American under pressure in the second as he created break opportunities in three of his four service games. After taking a 5-2 lead with a double break, Rublev was made to wait to serve out the match as rain halted play in Miami. But he didn't miss a beat upon resumption, coming back about an hour later to seal the victory after 64 minutes on court.

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The victory sends Rublev into the third round, equalling his previous best result in Miami. He awaits No. 29 seed Marton Fucsovics with an eye on reaching the fourth round for the first time.

The 23-year-old arrived in South Florida looking to make his mark at the ATP Masters 1000 level, where he has not yet advanced past the quarter-finals. He’s been on song since the start of the season, adding an ATP Cup trophy for Russia and an ATP 500 title in Rotterdam to his cabinet.

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