Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Andrey Rublev: Preview and betting tips

The last semifinalist of this year’s Tournament of Champions will be decided on Friday. The winner of the match between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Andrey Rublev will face Casper Ruud, the winner of the Green Group. The Greek tennis player is the paper favourite to advance.

Stefanos Tsitsipas is a 24-year-old tennis player from Greece. He can be found in third place on the ATP rankings, which is also his career high. However, if he manages to win the Tournament of Champions, he would move up to second place.

This year, he managed to do what he fell just short of in 2018, 2019 and 2021. We’re talking about 60 competition wins in a calendar year, with triumphs in Monte Carlo and also Mallorca being a huge part of that.

At the start of the Tournament of Champions, the Greek succumbed to Novak Djokovic after sets of 4::6 and 6::7, with Tsitsipas offering his opponent only two break point opportunities. In the second match, he found a recipe for Daniil Medvedev and kept his chance to advance.

His opponent on Friday will be Andrey Rublev, a 25-year-old Russian who is currently seventh in the ATP rankings. His career-high is fifth place from last September.

He has won four trophies since January, three of them on hard surfaces. He is in an optimal frame of mind for the Tournament of Champions, the final event of the season. In a dramatic duel with Medvedev, he won the all-important third-set tiebreak and then, as expected, fell to Djokovic.

In the Red Group, we will undoubtedly have a very interesting battle for the second position. The two players have met twelve times in the past, with Tsitsipas leaving the court as the winner seven times. Considering the evenness of these players, I recommend a bet on Rublev to win at least one set.