Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev was overwhelmed after winning at the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy. His victory came via a two-and-a-half hour match and a marathon, 47-stroke championship point.
It was world No. 7 Rublev’s 50th match win, and it came over friendly longtime rival and fellow Russian Daniil Medvedev, who was rated No.
5. Rublev collapsed in exhaustion and relief on Monday after his final overhead slam went unreturned, earning him the match.
But afterwards, he turned his attention to even more important matters. The 25-year-old took out a marker and wrote on the lens of a TV camera that had been covering the final, “Peace Peace Peace All we need,” an obvious reference to the ongoing war between his native Russia and Ukraine.
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