French Open 2021 - Fall of Rafa, Rise of Young Players And an Unseeded Winner in Women's Singles
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French Open this year will be in news for many reasons.
Firstly because of many players pulling out even before the tournament started and then defeat of most of the seeded players even before the quarterfinals and then came the surprise of Roger Federer pulling out to prepare for Wimbledon.
We now have another BIG news as Thirteen times French Open champion and last year's winner Rafael Nadal ousted in semifinals by number one player Novak Djokovic yesterday.
It's also the year where there were many young players making news and this included players like Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Domin Thiem, Daniil Medvedev and others.
Let's look into the semifinals matches played yesterday and the final of Women's singles where Barbara Krejicikova won the title as an unseeded player.
Semifinal Between Rafael Nadal and Novak Jokovic:
It was a day Rafael Nadal will try to forget as early as possible.
Having started with 5-0 scoreline in the first set, Rafa then lost 3 straight games before recovering to win a game to close the first set at 6-3.
And that was the beginning of more struggle for Rafa and Djoker started to raise the level of his game and went on to win the next set rather easily at same scoreline of first set i.e. 6-3.
That is when Rafa realized it's not easy to score against Djokovic and improved his game but eventually lost the set again with scoreline of 6-7(4-7 actually in tiebreak).
With back to back set wins for Djokovic, he had the momentum with him and Rafa needed to stop Djokovic in set 4 to have a chance of forcing the tiebreaker fifth set, but, that never happened as Rafa kept mishitting and lost the set 2-6.
Rafa was definitely not as his usual best and Djokovic knew even if a small mistake by him would give advantage to Rafa and he played better tennis than Rafa to win the match and he will be facing Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final tomorrow.
Djokovic will be eyeing for his Second French Open singles title after he won his First in 2016 defeating Andy Murray.
It seems like age is catching fast for Rafael Nadal and his long playing career is plagued by many knew injuries and operations, it will be a daunting task for him to win majors again but not impossible one for him being a fighter as we have seen him for so many years.
Semifinal Between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexander Zverev:
It was a match between 2 young players, 24 year old Zverev against 22 year old Stefanos and both played their heart out to reach higher level in this tournament.
As the scoreline reads, the first 2 sets were won by Stefanos rather easily with 6-3, 6-3 as Zverev took his time to adjust to the playing style of Stefanos.
In the next 2 sets, Zverev made a super come back to win 6-4, 6-4 and that means, the match went to the Fifth set.
Stefanos had to forget about the last 2 sets where he lost and start afresh to win this decide set and he starts off well to win the first game and Zverev leveled it up in the second and after that, Stefanos had back to back wins to make it 5-2 and eventually won it 6-3 to reach his First grand slam final!!!
Stefanos is the First Greek player to reach the finals of a grand slam and he will be facing Djokovic for his First grand slam title.
These 2 young players will take lots of confidence form their matches at French Open and both being young players, will definitely have many more shots at Grand slams.
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What a run from Barbara Krejicikova to win French Open Women's singles title after entering the tournament as an unseeded player.
She beat the 31st seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova for her Sixth grand slam title as she has already won 2 double and 3 mixed doubles titles including 2018 French Open Doubles title.
It is notable that, this is only her Second WTA title and first one won by her a day before the French Open 202 tournament started!!!.
Krejicikova will be now withing top 15 when the new rankings are announced and that will give her many more direct entries and opportunity to win more WTA titles.
With this win, she also created history as only the Second Czech player to win French Open Women's Singles Title.
She is also in line to win another title at this year's French Open since she has reached the Doubles final as well and will be eyeing her Seventh majors title tomorrow.
Oh!!! that will be exhausting one for all the players who are playing in French Open with CoVid rules all around.
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If there was someone going to beat Nadal, it was definitley going to be Novak. I consider this a minor set-back and feel he is capable of winning a few more French Open Tournaments before he retires
Yep, in his 3 defeats in French Open, 2 times he has been beaten by Djoker and their great sporting rivalry continues!!!!
I hope so because he is not someone who will surrender without fight. May be those knee injuries are hurting him, but he can make a comeback and that's what we all hope :)
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The semi finals for the men was really great to see. Both deserving men eventually made it through to the final.
Also a great win from Barbara Krejicikova. What a run from the Czech. Congratulations to her
Yeah, great matches and pullouts and losses for seeded players in early rounds gave a chance to many who were seeded more and also for unseeded players and Krejicikova has played well throughout the tournament.
It's always nice to see a doubles player lift singles trophy and she has good chance of getting one more trophy in doubles today.
Who would have thought she would have won the Rolland garros. She really did well making good use of the opportunity.
Will be really nice seeing her add the doubles trophy. I hope she and Siniaková emerge victorious today
super sad day for me. Nadal is one of my favorites!!
Same with me.
But, semifinal is not a bad round to bow out and let someone like Djokovic have his second trophy at Roland Garros.
I am sure, Rafa will forget this loss and bounce back and entertain all of us again.
Good day to you :)