Alexander Zverev is the first semi-finalist of the Masters 1000 in Miami, the second of the men’s tennis season. The Hungarian lost in the first match of the day, the one that opens the program at the Hard Rock Stadium Fabian Marozsan with the score 6-3 7-5. Now for him one between Carlos Alcaraz and Grigor Dimitrov: the Spanish and the Bulgarian will cross paths at midnight.
The two begin serving without problems, but it is the third game that puts the distance: despite valid resistance from the Hungarian, Zverev, at the fourth break point, takes advantage of a short ball that ends up in the net. Marizsan has an opportunity to return, at 3-2, but is denied by a forehand on the line from the German who draws the half line. The Hungarian’s difficulties continue at 5-3, when at 30-40 a double fault gives the set to his opponent after 38 minutes.
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There is more of a fight in the second set: the Hungarian manages to cancel a break point by going to the net, then he himself gets one, but without there being any positive outcome in this sense. While Zverev performs a sort of “slam dunk” at 4-4, a shot that has remained in history as a trademark of Pete Sampras, the approach to a tie-break seems to be inevitable. The ATP number 5, however, does not agree, and leaves Marozsan firm on the winning response it’s worth the victory and entry into the best four in Florida.
In the hour and 37 minutes of the match the real factor for Zverev is the first: 80% of points scored. For him it is the first semi-final in Miami since 2018, the year in which he reached the final. It is also his 17th time in the penultimate act of a Masters 1000.
