The men's singles stage in Cincinnati, the penultimate Master of the season, is settled.
Čulić, a former "sinking" teenager from Croatia, won two straight sets against the No. 4 seed and Greek adept Tsitsipas.
As a North American Double Masters, if the montreal championship was won by Busta, it is somewhat surprising, then Churich's rise to the top in Cincinnati can definitely be called a stone-breaking.
Admittedly, Churich became famous at a young age and was once more anticipated than Busta.
But professional tennis is like a marathon, Busta relies on obscure efforts to keep himself in the forefront of the world rankings for a long time, and the Rogers Cup win is like a compliment to his efforts for so many years; And Churic made a stunning debut, and then quickly slid down the sky like a meteor, so that before this station, few people would mention him, mention the man who had defeated Fenamu many times.
In terms of appearance, the final is a battle between two handsome men in today's tennis world, they are all regarded by fans as the "golden beauty" of men's tennis, although Ciurić is more pleasing, but Tsitsipas has a standard Greek sculptural appearance, aside from some of its court behavior, it is also a proper big handsome guy.
For Tsitsipas to reach the final, it can be said that one hand has touched the base of the championship trophy, because in the semi-finals, the Greek defeated Medvedev, the world's number one and number one seed in the world, in three sets.
Mei Zong, who habitually threatens in the North American season every year, is A bitter main player of Tsitsipas, if the three young new generation players have a bitter master with each other, Tsitsipas is an opponent that Zverev does not want to meet, then May is a player who makes Tsitsipas headache.
Compared with Zverev's regular head, Mei Zong, who was born to "grind", was never impatient, and through patient bottom-line stalemate and octopus-like dense defense, it was difficult for the Greeks, who were less stable, to cope.
This is also the main reason why Tsitsipas swallowed 7 defeats in the previous 9 meetings between the two.
Finally, after Tsitsipas successfully crossed the hardcourse and North America, which May was good at, and gnawed the "hardest" bone in his career, the Greeks once again attacked their third Masters champion and the first hard-court Masters champion.
This time, it seems that the Greek "first brother" is determined to win: if even the world's first can be eliminated, what opponent can not fight and win?
Unfortunately, the opponent Tsitsipas met in the final seemed to be only 152nd in the world ranking, but the ranking could not represent his strength at all.
Many tournaments will have "dark horse" players, especially when the giants are not there.
But being able to beat the giants in direct dialogue, and doing it many times, there's no doubt that this player can't be defined by an ordinary dark horse.
Croatian handsome Chulic belongs to this type of player.
After Tsitsipas defeated world number one in the semi-finals, he was very eager for the championship. Similarly, Churich, who has been passing the hurdle, is reluctant to give up the trophy.
If the opponent can decide the champion, then the winner of Cincinnati is more convincing.
Musetti, Agut, Aliassim, Nori, all the best players have been eliminated by him, and on the list of losers, there is even a bigger one: 22 Grand Slam winners, Spain's King Nadal!
This can't help but make me self-entertainingly make up a conversation between the two of them. Suppose before the final players could "provoke" each other like boxers.
Tsitsipas would hold his head high and say to Ciurich, "Hey, dude, I beat the world number one to reach the final, so the champion will be mine." ”
And Qiu Shao spat out lazily, "Oh, you're very powerful." However, I eliminated him - Raphael. Nadal. ”
So, the game officially began, after a fierce operation, the last laugh was the Croatian handsome Ciurić who defeated the 22 Grand Slam winners.
Congratulations to Qiu Shao: After this campaign, the ranking soared 123 places, and the immediate ranking rose to 29th, the US Open seed seat, he occupied a place!