Best Seed Zverev replaces champion Popyrin’s 75th semifinal in Toronto – Tennis now
Richard Pagliaro | Monday, August 4, 2025
Image source: Peter Power/Canada/National Bank Open Facebook
Pop up the body, Alexander Zverev Over two hours in tonight’s game, a series of kangaroo hops were released behind the baseline.
Zverev Dethroned defends National Bank Open Champion Alexei Popyrin 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-3 jumped to the historical semi-finals.
Best-seeded Zverev won the second time Popyrin made nine consecutive victories in history at the Canadian Open.
Zverev was promoted to his 75th Pro Tour semifinal in his 500th career victory on Thursday, including his 21st ATP Masters 1000 final tonight.
The former Olympic gold medalist joins the dominant gold medalist Novak Djokovic (196) Just the second active person to enter the 75 professional semifinals.
The first man of the last four 🙌@Alexzverev Back from the scene and take away the defending champion Popyrin 6-7 6-4 6-4 🔥#NBO25 pic.twitter.com/bro0xszech
– Tennis TV (@tennistv) August 5, 2025
The 27-year-old German won the 2017 Montreal title and will play the No. 11 seed Karen Khachanov Or a 20-year-old American Alex Michelsen Position in the Toronto finals.
A tense opening scene saves everyone a breakout point, and the drama soars in the decisive game.
In the winning decisive game, Poplin took the lead with a 5-3 lead, but saw Zverev score three-pointers with a fixed point of 6-5.
Australia’s diagonal forehand caused backhand errors in 6 Australian backhand errors. Popyrin keeps a fixed point at 7-6, but Zverev slides into T to save it.
The top seed held the second fixed point at 8-7 but obtained a forehand return on the second serve, bursting in the original scream of pain.
Popyrin hit the T-imhis eighth of the T-8 Ace at the second game point of 9-8. Popyrin showed his courage to attack behind the line, then patted the half, kissed the top of the tape and dribbled the ball, ending the tight first set.
Cruel way to end exciting attractions 🤯
Alexei Popyrin claims this opener 7-6✅#NBO25 pic.twitter.com/idgih1xryc
– Tennis TV (@tennistv) August 5, 2025
Popyrin apologized with his hands and took the lead after 1 hour in the game and 11 minutes.
After the reset, Zverev held on to the second set before scoring the first break of the night in a series of Australian turnovers. Popyrin headed for the forehand, double-breaking and led the second set 2-0.
Zverev scored his second love in the game, extending his advantage to 3-0.
Zverev’s forehand seemed to control the scene 4-2, causing him to lose in Game 7. The German slowed down to hit the forehand into the network (his third forehand error in the game), which brought the champion’s love breakthrough as it gradually approached 3-4.
Zverev walked into the court and placed his weight behind the ball, slamming the three-game winning streak in Game 10. Although Popyrin saved the first fixing point, he tried serving and Walley and pushed a made-in forehand volley as Zverev snatched the second set with his second break after an hour, 58 minutes.
The increasingly tired Popyrin sent a huge serve to open the court, but pushed his welcome forehand to face the breakout point. Popyrin ended a sloppy game, giving Zverev a break in the final set and leading 2-0.
A pumped Zverev hit the game’s shot, an excellent all-pull-flying forehand volleyball champion, leading him 3-0 to 15.
Zverev won command in the final, earning 70% of the championship and winning 15 of 15 points. It’s impressive, especially considering that an idiot in the crowd screamed as he was distracted as the German ball rose in the final game. The vandal caused a double failure, but Toronto’s safety was attributed to finding unruly fans and escorting him out of the stadium.
Zverev closed in two hours, stopped for 42 minutes and took a turn and goodbye, reaching the second in the stadium where the destroyers were.
