On October 30, the St. Petersburg Open in Russia broke out a big upset, and the qualifier Berdych from the Netherlands swept the top seed of the tournament and the world's sixth-ranked Rublev 6-3, 6-4, reaching the at-top semi-finals of the ATP Tour for the first time in his career, setting a new career high, and the victory also put Djokovic and Nadal to relief.
The quarter-final did not develop as expected, the whole game was always played in the rhythm of Berdych, although Rublev's ranking and results were better, but in the game he hesitated, always in a dilemma, some balls attacked too hard, some balls did not dare to let go of their hands and feet to play, over time caused a passive situation. In the end, after 1 hour and 33 minutes of game, Berdych laughed to the end and ended the dream of Russian players winning the tournament for three consecutive years.
In fact, although Berdych is currently only 69th in the world rankings, he is one of the fastest-rising players this year, reaching the quarterfinals all the way through the US Open this season and taking a set in the hands of the new US Open champion Medvedev, while in the St. Petersburg Open, Berdych also maintained excellent competitive form, not conceding a set so far, and won the first career victory against the world's top ten players.
From this game, it can be seen that the strength of the current top ten players in the men's tennis world is actually average, relying on these people to play the world is not realistic, which also gives Nadal and Djokovic the opportunity, although Federer has gone down, but Dana is still very competitive, in the face of these 95s in the useless guys, Nader two to clean them up is still more certain, as long as Nadal's injury heals, Djokovic maintains his form, the number of Grand Slams for both of them will continue to increase.