2023-09-25 14:40:27
Published on September 25, 2023 at 4:40 p.m. Aurélie Sacchelli
Karen Khachanov has advanced to the final of the Zhuhai tournament, where he will face Yoshihito Nishioka for the title on Tuesday.
The Shanghai Masters 1000, which returns to the calendar following four years of absence, now taking place over ten days, the ATP calendar has been adjusted, so that the ATP 250 tournaments in Chengdu and Zhuhai began in the middle of the week last and their final will be held on Tuesday, just like the 250 and 500 tournaments in Astana and Beijing, which will start on Wednesday and Thursday and conclude on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Ce mardi, la finale de Zhuhai opposera le 15eme mondial Karen Khachanov au 46eme Yoshihito Nishioka. The Russian, seeded No. 1, who had only played (and lost) one match since his quarter-final loss at Roland-Garros once morest Djokovic before coming to China, got rid of the top seed n°4, Sebastian Korda: 7-5, 6-4 in 1h47 in a six-break match. Karen Khachanov was the first to break in this match, at 2-2 in the first set, but the American immediately took back her serve (3-3). Finally, at 5-5, the Russian broke once more and concluded with a shutout. In the second set, Khachanov quickly led 4-0, losing only four points. Korda managed to come back to 4-2 but then did not have the slightest opportunity to score another break. Khachanov will therefore play the seventh final of his career, the first since January 2022, and will try to win his first title since the 2018 Rolex Paris Masters.
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Yoshihito Nishioka, seeded No. 8, will play his fifth final, following eliminating Aslan Karatsev with a score of 6-4, 6-4 in 1h53. Trailing 2-0 in the first set, the Japanese managed to overthrow the Russian, equalizing at 2-2 before breaking at 3-3 then pocketing the set on his sixth set point. Almost identical scenario in the second, where he was led 3-0 then 4-1, before winning five games in a row, and therefore the match. On Tuesday, he will face Khachanov for the fifth time in his career. The Russian leads 3-1 and notably won at the last Australian Open.
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