2020 Olympic champion in mixed doubles, Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev, the world’s seventh racket, won the King’s Cup.
In the final of the tournament, Rublev defeated the world’s 14th racket, Croatian athlete Borna Coric. The match ended in two sets with scores of 7:5, 6:2. Rublev became the first tennis player from Russia to win the trophy.
The tournament was held on clay ground in Huelva (Spain). The competition has been held since 1912 and is one of the oldest in tennis history. Currently, the tournament is an exhibition in nature.
The Russian tennis player came to the tournament right after Wimbledon. He reached the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam tournament and lost to Serbian athlete Novak Djokovic, the world’s second racket, with the scores of 4:6, 6:1, 6:4, 6:3 in four sets. .
Wimbledon, which will end on July 16, will face Djokovic in the men’s singles final against Spanish athlete Carlos Alcaraz, who occupies the first place in the Tennis Professionals Association (ATP) rating.
Formerly Djokovic Confessedthat his daughter is a Rublev fan.