PARIS – Matteo Berrettini flies to the London Finals. The good news for Italian tennis comes from Paris-Bercy, where Canadian Denis Shapovalov has bent down Gael Monfils with a score of 6-2, 6-2. If the French had won the semi-finals, he would have effectively excluded the Roman. This is the third Italian to qualify for the Finals after Adriano Panatta in 1975 in Stockholm and Corrado Barazzutti in 1978 in New York. In London from 10 to 18 November Berrettini, who from Monday will be number 8 of the world ranking will play alfianco of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Daniil Medvedev, Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev and Stefanos Tsitsipas.Meanwhile, Djokovic-Dimitrov will be one of the two semi-finals in Paris-Bercy. In the quarter, Djokovic, world number one and first seeded, beat the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in 58 minutes, leaving him with just three games (6-1, 6-2). The Serbian, four-time winner in Paris, will face the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, number 27 Atp, who defeated the Chilean Cristian Garin 6-2 7-5. For Dimitrov, recent semi-finalist at the US Open, this is the sixth semi-final in a Masters (the only victory in Cincinnati in 2017), the first after a year and a half.
Wta Finals, Pliskova last semifinalist
Karolina Pliskova is the fourth and final semi-finalist of the Wta Finals in Shenzhen. The Czech, No. 2 in the ranking, beat Simona Halep, No. 5 Wta 6-0 2-6 6-4, securing second place in the group and passing the semifinals. Previously the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, No. 8 Wta and current champion, already sure of first place in the group, had beaten the American Sofia Kenin, n.12 of the ranking, the second reserve of the Finals, for 7-5 7-6 substitute of the Canadian Bianca Andreescu, n.4 Wta, who retired due to an injury to the left knee on Wednesday in the match against Pliskova. In the semi-finals scheduled for tomorrow, Svitolina will face Belinda Bencic while Pliskova will have to contend with Ashleigh Barty.
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