{"id":33245,"date":"2019-11-17T20:56:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=33245"},"modified":"2019-11-17T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T20:56:18","slug":"tsitsipas-beats-thiem-at-o2-arena-to-become-atp-finals-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/tsitsipas-beats-thiem-at-o2-arena-to-become-atp-finals-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas beats Thiem at O2 Arena to become ATP Finals champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Dominic Thiem 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) to become the youngest ever champion at the ATP Tour Finals in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thiem won the first set on a close tie-break, and was first to serve in the second. But 21 year-old Tsitsipas saw an opportunity and took it as he broke serve. The Greek then gained momentum, holding serve and breaking Thiem again, before serving for the set at 5-2 and leveling the match.<\/p>\n

A long opening game in the deciding third set saw Thiem hold on, before Tsitsipas fired through his own service game and broke the Austrian straight after.<\/p>\n

But Thiem broke back to level the score at 3-3, and both players stayed on serve to reach the tiebreak that saw Tsitsipas clinch the title.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B4-wXxhhWuU\/<\/p>\n

Both players had never reached the final before, this year marking Tsitsipas\u2019 debut at the tournament, who is also the youngest finalist since 2009.<\/p>\n

The Greek saw off Roger Federer in the semi-final<\/a>, while Thiem made it passed last year\u2019s champion Alexander Zverev to make it to his first final at the O2 Arena.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B47s4dRh95V\/<\/p>\n

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Rafael Nadal ends the season as world number one<\/a> despite failing to reach the last four, making him the oldest player to do so aged 33.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B45fWyMhGkN\/<\/p>\n

This year also marked the penultimate time the season-ending tournament will be staged in London, as it was announced earlier in the year that it will move to the Pala Alpitour stadium<\/a> in Turin, Italy after 12 years in the UK.<\/p>\n

But despite the tournament marking the end of the tennis season, the action isn\u2019t over yet, with the Davis Cup finals taking place in Madrid next week.<\/p>\n

Six groups of three teams will compete in a round-robin, before the winners in each group and two second-place teams battle it out in the knockout stages, with the final on Sunday 24th November.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B418CG7g-W7\/<\/p>\n

Great Britain\u2019s team<\/a>, captained by Leon Smith, includes former world number one Andy Murray after he won his first title in over two years<\/a> in October. Dan Evans and Kyle Edmund were also named, alongside double\u2019s partners Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski.<\/p>\n

Words: Alysia Georgiades\u00a0| Featured image: Photo by Claus Gr\u00fcnst\u00e4udl on Unsplash<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Dominic Thiem 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) to become the youngest ever champion at the ATP Tour Finals in London. Thiem won the first set on a close tie-break, and was first…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":33247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,124],"tags":[613,1741,2386,3769,4578,6130,6538],"class_list":["post-33245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-tennis","tag-atp-finals","tag-davis-cup","tag-final","tag-london","tag-o2-arena","tag-tennis","tag-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t