The ATP1000 Paris Masters enters the finale drama.
The men's singles final is a clash between old and new. Six-time champion and Serbian king Djokovic will face 19-year-old Danish teenager Ruone.
The Paris Masters is the last 1000 tournament of the year, bringing together many masters to compete, and after a week of exciting competition, finally produced a finalist, the defending champion Djokovic in the lower half of the final, as the most won player in the tournament, even if the No. 6 seed is still the favorite to win the title.
Compared with Deyo, Roone's success in breaking through in the first half is somewhat "surprising", knowing that in the top half there is world No. 1 Alcaraz, Aliassime, who has won three consecutive titles, as well as Poland's brother Hurkacz and Russia's Rublev, almost everyone is a strong contender for a place in the final. However, as the match progressed, the above players stopped and lost to the same opponent, the eventual title contender Roone.
The Danish teenager has won five games before reaching the final, and with the exception of his opponent Wawrinka in the first round, the other four are all TOP10 players, so they can reach the final, and Rooney deserves to win.
The Danish fairy tale is only close to the final victory, and if Rune wants to go to the end, he still needs to face the test of the biggest boss, the six-time champion Djokovic.
In terms of strength, Rooney is currently full of impact, comprehensive technique, excellent automatic ability, and has the ability to compete with any player.
For the Danish youngster, the biggest challenge of the competition is how to deal with the pressure of the final of the major competition, especially against Djokovic.
In the first set, after the first two sets of testing, Rooney suddenly became nervous, and in the fourth set sent a double error to directly give up the serve, and Deyo easily broke to occupy the advantage on the court;
The Danish teenager, who was behind in the scoreline, continued to be tight in the first set, and it was difficult to launch an effective counterattack on Deyo's serve, and in the end, the defending champion won comfortably 6-3 with a break advantage.
Throughout the first set, Roone's biggest problem was still due to excessive psychological pressure, resulting in the failure to play at the same level, technically speaking, the Danish teenager played a poor performance of 4 doubles and 12 unforced errors in the first set, and did not get a single break point in the Djo serve.
In the second set, Roone, who served first, continued his bad moments while having a crucial awakening opportunity.
In the first serve, the youngster came up and lost three points in a row, giving Deyo 40:0, three consecutive break opportunities, under the crisis, the free-going Rooney played at a high level, and after a thrilling serve, he completely released his emotions.
Deyo, who lost the opportunity, was countered, returned to his own serve and made a series of mistakes, gave the youngster the first break point, and with a return shot out of bounds, Deyo easily handed over the game and took a 2:0 lead in the game;
The Danish teenager, who had regained his confidence, saved all his serve in the second set, and with a break in the opening set, returned the set with a score of 6-3.
In the tiebreaker, Deyo served first.
In the first three games, each side kept serve, and Deyo took a 2-1 lead;
The balance on the court in the third set was broken in the fourth set, and Roone's consecutive errors in serve again sent a huge dilemma of 0:40, and after saving one with a serve, Rune failed to resolve the crisis, and the double error was broken under pressure;
In the fourth game, Deyo, who had a break advantage, failed to hold on to the 30:0 situation, and Rooney first got the break point with a lucky volley, and then crossed through in a multi-shot match, and chased the score to 2:3 after breaking back at the speed of light;
Deyo, who was broken, asked a physiotherapist to enter and give a brief massage of his leg muscles.
Back on the field, the two sides entered mutual protection mode, and the score rose alternately, and the innings reached a 5:5 draw;
In the eleventh game, Deyo served again with a 30-0 advantage by small points, and Rooney scored a key break with a forehand attack that went beyond the touchline.
In the twelfth game, the Danish teenager came to his own serve to win the championship, under pressure, Rooney sent six break points, but Deyo did not seize the opportunity, after nearly 20 minutes of fierce fighting, the young player seized the opportunity on the second championship point to win the game 7-5.
In the end, after three hard sets, Rooney narrowly reversed six-time tournament champion Djokovic to win five consecutive TOP10 first-time victories and be crowned Masters champion for the first time.
Defending champion Dream Break won his seventh title and missed out on his 91st career title.
Congratulations to Junior Rune for winning the 2022 Paris Masters men's singles title.