Jack Sok broke the French hearts and reached for the title in Paris
5.11.2017
The unpredictable and reversed ultimate tennis tournament of the Masters Series in Paris will end with the most unexpected final, Jack Sok, against the qualifier Philip Krajovic. The American beat the local favorite and protagonist in one of Julian Benetton`s most romantic modern stories in tennis, who had made his first ATP career title in his last show in the French capital.
However, Juck won with 7: 5, 6: 2 and will play on his first Masters final on Sunday, continuing to be the pole position for the eighth place in the London Race, according to which ATP Finals. If Sock wins the title, he will replace Pablo Karenio-Busha`s key position and will make him and Juan Martin del Potro reserve the list for the final tournament at the London O2 Arena. The Argentine has already announced that he has no intention of taking part in the ATP Finals because he is extremely exhausted from the season and will rest in Tandil. Karenio-Busta is in the confused situation of a late wait for Rafael Nadal, who may not recover in time for London from his knee injury, which he was knocking out before the quarterfinals in Paris. Just before two tournaments, Sok ended a series of five consecutive defeats, and when he arrived in the French capital for the last Masters, he was the 24th in the London Race. Three days ago, he was in a difficult situation to lag with 0: 5 games from Kyle Edmund but is already in the final in Paris. Winning the title will not only take the ATP Finals quota, it will also make its debut in the top 10 of the world rankings next week, and will end the moody series of 107 European winners in the Masters series.
The story of 35-year-old Benetton has come to an end before the Paris final, but he will hardly forget the magic week in which he recorded two consecutive wins over the top 10 rivals in the world and only for the second time in his careersemi-finals in the highest ATP category. An eventual title would have been his first, and it was in front of his own audience - the ten thousand in the Bercy Hall kept up supporting him but his strength was over and he could not play the match against Sock at the same high level. The finals on Sunday will either give us the first champion outside Europe from 107 Masters or the first qualifier since 2001 when Albert Portas defeated David Ferrero in the Hamburg final (now out of the Masters Series).
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