![]() He always beats me, so why need to be tight.” Today when I was going on court I thought I had nothing to lose. “He was always like an older brother to me and in all the previous matches he beat me. We have been together since juniors,” Rublev said of his relationship with Zverev. “We are really good friends, we have known each other since 10 or 11 years old. The 25-year-old, who defeated Jiri Vesely in last year’s final, will face third seed Daniil Medvedev in his first championship match of the season. Rublev is aiming to become the third repeat champion in Dubai, joining Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. “I had a couple of match points but he played well but in the end at 9/9, I made a good return and then I said ‘Ok, let’s try to make it here’. I was preparing mentally for the third set but I somehow saved a set point,” Rublev said. ![]() “I was thinking it was going to be a third set. However, Rublev flipped the script with a clean-hitting performance at the ATP 500 event, saving one set point in the second set to triumph 6-3, 7-6(9) on his sixth match point after one hour and 58 minutes. The second seed, who saved five match points earlier this week against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, had not won a set in his five previous meetings against seventh-seeded German Zverev. Andrey Rublev recorded his first victory over Alexander Zverev in his sixth attempt Friday to move to within one win of defending his Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title.
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