Two of the ATP Tour’s nice energy gamers will meet on Sunday within the Rolex Shanghai Masters singles remaining. Whereas each Andrey Rublev and Hubert Hurkacz are positive to gentle up the radar gun, the 2 opponents — each searching for a second ATP Masters 1000 crown — will assault the match in very alternative ways.
Rublev, this yr’s Monte-Carlo champion, is only from the bottom. His bruising baseline sport helped him to the largest triumph of his profession earlier this season on the Monaco clay, and it has supplied the inspiration for the fifth seed’s run to the Shanghai remaining.
“Andrey, clearly, hits each single ball 200 kilometres per hour, and he simply goes after the photographs,” Hurkacz stated of Rublev, who has not misplaced a set in 5 wins. “He simply brings a lot power on the courtroom. He is a terrific competitor.”
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Hurkacz’s sport is basically constructed round his booming serve, a weapon that helped him defeat Sebastian Korda with out going through a break level within the semi-finals. The Pole’s prime deliveries usually set him as much as assault on serve (if they arrive again into play) and likewise free him as much as be aggressive on return.
Hurkacz has hit 872 aces this yr, probably the most on the ATP Tour, together with at the very least 12 in every of his Shanghai wins. He might turn into the primary participant to hit 1,000 aces in a season since People John Isner (1,032) and Reilly Opelka (1,014) each did so in 2019.
“Hubi is [such a] powerful participant. He is actually powerful to play towards,” Rublev stated of the sixteenth seed, who will probably be his fifth straight seeded opponent in Shanghai. “He has good strokes from baseline. He has good [feel]. He strikes nicely, rather well, particularly for his peak. He actually has a very good defensive sport. The serve, among the best serves on tour, makes him a very, actually powerful participant that it is advisable be on a regular basis tremendous focussed [against].”
Statistics from Tennis Insights forecast the tactical battle in retailer on Sunday. Rublev’s well-rounded sport is anchored by his deadly forehand, which has scored an 8.7 Shot High quality out of 10 this week. That rating is trumped solely by Hurkacz’s 9.3 mark on serve. Each gamers are above the ATP Tour common by each measure within the beneath graphic, excluding Hurkacz’s backhand and his Steal rating, which measures how usually a participant wins factors from defence.
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Hurkacz will probably be competing in his third ATP Masters 1000 remaining, having received the Miami title in 2021 and completed runner-up in Montreal in 2022. That Montreal defeat is the lone blemish on the Pole’s 6-1 document in tour-level singles finals. Rublev is 14-8 in title matches, together with Masters 1000 remaining defeats in Monte-Carlo and Cincinnati in 2021.
Along with the celebrated Shanghai crown, there will probably be lots on the road Sunday within the Pepperstone ATP Dwell Race To Turin. Rublev might transfer 1,500 factors contained in the minimize for the Nitto ATP Finals together with his fourth title of the season, a consequence that may additional cement his place in fifth place. A victory would all however safe his place in Turin alongside the already-qualified Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner.
The 25-year-old would additionally rise to a career-high of No. 4 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings with the title.
Hurkacz, already up three locations to thirteenth this week within the Pepperstone ATP Dwell Race To Turin, would surge to eleventh together with his second title of 2023. That may put him simply 335 factors behind Holger Rune, who at the moment occupies the all-important eighth-place place.
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