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Davidovich Fokina upsets future No. 1 Zverev to reach the Shanghai Masters final against Jodar · Best of: Features

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  Davidovich Fokina upset future No. One Zverev to reach the Shanghai Masters
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  final against Jodar. This article is being read by an automated voice
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  generated by Everlett. Shanghai, the AP, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina,
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  upset future number one Alexander Zaverev, five seven six four six three,
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  to reach the Shanghai Masters final on Saturday. The twenty five seeded
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  Spaniard who won the ATP two hundred and fifty Chengdu Open in
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  China last month reached the second Masters final.
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  Of his career after losing on clay at Monte Carlo in twenty
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  twenty two. He will try for his third title of the year
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  and of his career, against twenty year old Spaniard Raphae L. Jodar,
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  who also secured a big win by toppling twenty nineteen champion Daniil
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  Medvedev six three six four to reach his first masters final. Medvedev
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  saved three match points serving at five three down and the held
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  serve, but Jodar sealed the victory on his own served clipping a
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  forehand winner down the line after Medvedev's tame smash at the net
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  sat up nicely for him. The number 12 seeded Jodar is looking
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  for his second career title after winning on clay at the Grand
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  Prix Hassan II in Marrakech, Morocco in April. Zverev feels fatigued, but
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  Earlier Saturday, the top seeded Zverev, who recently clinched the year end
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  number one ranking, served out the first set with an ace. But
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  the imposing German soon found himself under pressure, saving two breakpoints in
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  the fourth game, of the second set. Davidovich Fokina broke Zverev with
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  a brilliant two handed backhand down the line to level the match,
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  and an ace put him four one up in the deciding set.
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  Today I was flat, even in the first set, even though I
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  won the set, Zaverev said. I was not reacting so well, I
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  was returning quite badly. At fifteen forty down on serve in the
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  eighth game, Zverev saved two match points, but Davidovich Fokina held his
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  nerve and clinched victory on his third match point when Zverev could
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  not return his sliced serve on forehand. I feel like I've actually,
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  in a way, maybe overachieved this week because of how much tennis
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  I played, Zverev added. I carried fatigue into the tournament, and I'm
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  okay to lose to a player like this today. Zverev is scheduled
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  to play the ATP five hundred in Vienna, which begins october twenty
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  sixth and could see him face seven time Grand Slam champion Carlos
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  Alcaraz. See the AP's full tennis coverage here.