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tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\nBy Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Photo credit: Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters Facebook<\/p>\n
On a day that saw former champion Andrey Rublev bite the dust, Alexander Zverev showed appetite for the fight making a fierce comeback in Monte-Carlo.<\/p>\n
Facing a 0-4 final-set deficit, Zverev reeled off seven of the last eight games rallying past long-time nemesis Cristian Garin 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n
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Zverev, who improved to 16-5 on the season, has advanced to ATP Masters 1000 semifinals in five of his last six ATP 1000 appearances.<\/p>\n
World No. 47 Zizou Bergs toppled the 2023 champion Rublev 6-4, 6-1 to roll into the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters round of 16 showdown vs. Zverev.<\/p>\n
The third-seeded Zverev looked down and out staring down a dire Love-4 deficit in the decider today. Zverev belted five of his eight aces in the final set.<\/p>\n
After Garin held for a 5-2 lead, Zverev won eight of the next nine points on serve wrapping a couple of holds around a break to level the set. Zverev broke at love for 6-5 then fought off three break points to seal a grueling two hour, 50-minute triumph. Zverev surpassed the Monte-Carlo opener for the ninth time in 10 tournament appearances.<\/p>\n
It came 13 years after Garin defeated Zverev in the Roland Garros boys\u2019 singles final.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Bergs saved seven of eight break points and hit eight more winners (18 to 10) than the 13th-seeded Rublev.<\/p>\n
Three seeds fell from the field today. Matteo Berrettini blasted seventh-seeded Daniil Medvedev, 6-0, 6-0, handing the former world No. 1 the first double-bagel defeat of his career.<\/p>\n
Czech Tomas Machac stopped 16th-seeded Argentinean Francisco Cerundolo 7-6(2), 6-3, to set up a round of 16 clash vs. world No. 2 Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, April 8, 2026Photo credit: Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters Facebook On a day that saw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-593819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}