MOSCOW, January 6 Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev said that At times I thought about losing in the semi-final match of the tournament in Hong Kong due to the good play of my opponent.
In the semi-final match, Rublev beat the Chinese representative Shang Juncheng with a score of 4:6, 6:2, 6:3. The athletes spent 2 hours and 9 minutes on the court.
«»It was a very difficult match. He is an extremely talented and powerful player, he played an incredible match. At some moments I thought that I had no chance (of winning) because it felt like he was dominating. I I didn’t know what to do. I just kept fighting,” the official website of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) quotes Rublev as saying.
In the final of the tournament, Rublev will play against the Finn Emil Ruusuvuori.