The Muscovite tennis player, sixth in the world, kept his temper and clung to victory when he had the game lost.
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Rune stood at 3-0 and 4-1 in the third and final quarter, but fell and the Russian took advantage of his rival’s downturn to amend the match.
Rublev accumulated twelve titles before breaking into the Monte Carlo final, but had never achieved success of this level. The two times he tried, in Cincinnati and on this same stage, in Monaco, both in 2021, he failed.
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The shadow of a new defeat loomed around the Russian, who ran into a rival spurred on by his good start and that he scored the first set with solvency. He is the Danish one of the youngsters with the most expectations in current tennis. Last year was the year of his explosion. He won all three of his titles, including the Masters 1,000 in Paris, and played in two other finals.
ANDREY RUBLEV IS THE CHAMPION OF MONTE CARLO ?@AndreyRublev97 defeats Rune 5-7 6-2 7-5 to win his FIRST Masters 1000 title!#RolexMonteCarloMasters pic.twitter.com/YMHSwC3DbJ
— Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters (@ROLEXMCMASTERS) April 16, 2023
However, Rune couldn’t stop Rublev’s reaction, with which he faced for the third time. The first was won by the Dane, last year in Paris, but the most recent, in an epic clash, at the Australian Open this 2023, the victory went to the Russian.
Andrey Rublev, sixth player in the world, brought to his record the thirteenth trophy, the second of the year after Dubai and the first in the Masters 1,000 category.
The entrance Rublev reigns in Monte Carlo was first published on newspaper TODAY.
