In the last four of the Dubai Tennis Championships, Dan Evans is going to face Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek second seed. For the very first time, Tsitsipas is going to set up an encounter against Dan vans with 4-6 6-4 6-4 victory over German Jan-Lennard Struff. In coming Sunday’s other semi-final, world number one Novak Djokovic from Serbia will meet France’s, Gael Monfils. Thirty-two years old Djokovic has eased past Russia’s Karen Khachanov in the quarter-final, and he needs just sixty-six minutes to beat his 17th rank holder opponent 6-2 6-2.
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Novak Djokovic added that he is feeling well and playing well. He has won his past nineteen matches. He also said that he loves playing in Dubai. This year, Monfils has already won titles in Montepellier and Rotterdam, and he is now on an attractive winning streak of the last twelve matches. But he has lost in the previous sixteen events to Novak Djokovic. Monfils said that now he will like to accelerate with anew game plan, and he will test how it works. Maybe last sixteen times were wrong, and hopefully, seventeen times won’t be.
The confidence level of Dan Evans for this upcoming match
Till the date, the Dubai match is the most convincing match of Dan Evans. And his confidence will grow up after this one. To reach the last eight, he needed to come from a set down to Italian fourth seed Fabio Fognini in the very opening match, and along with it, he edged out France’s Pierre-Hugues Herbert in a third set tie break.
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Pressure on Evans
Rublev is also another strong opponent. He said that he was relieved to wrap up the triumph in just two sets. Evans said, “It was tough, I just hung in at the end and got through. I just didn’t fancy playing another set; I think that’s what got me through.”
Dan Evans is also facing
Evans is also facing continuous pressure from Russia. Russia has started this season with an eleven match winning streak after achieving back-to-back trophies in Doha and Adelaide. In the final game of the opening set, Evans saved five break points before winning the game on his third set point. During serving for victory at 5-4, Evans was broken, and in the tie break, he missed two set points. After that, Rublev sent a comeback over the baseline to close it.
In the third quarter-final of 2020, the Briton was competing against Adelaide, and here he lost to Rotterdam and Rublev. Presently Evans is going into relatively uncharted history. His previous semi-finals were in Delray Beach in 2019, Sydney in 2017, and Zagreb in 2014.
