2021 MIAMI OPEN, Zverev gone ….
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Playing in his tournament debut at the ATP Masters 1000 event, 21-year-old Ruusuvuori changed tactics after dropping the opening set. The Finnish player dialed up the aggression against the World No. 7 and moved up to the net to complete the turnaround for his first Top 10 victory of the year. It’s just the second of his career, after defeating Dominic Thiem in 2019 in Davis Cup play.
“I don’t even know myself [how I turned this match around],” Ruusuvuori said in his on-court interview. “I wasn’t feeling very comfortable in the first set and I was making a lot of unforced errors. But slowly in the second I was starting to feel a bit better…
“Of course, it’s one of the biggest wins in my career so it feels good.”
Into the third round at an ATP Masters 1000 event for the second time, Ruusuvuori will face Mikael Ymer in his next match. The Swede pulled off his own Miami upset earlier in the day, advancing after a 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 win over No. 27 seed Nikoloz Basilashvili.
