{"id":86241,"date":"2025-04-11T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?p=86241"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:49:57","slug":"former-finalist-davidovich-fokina-returns-to-monte-carlo-sfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/former-finalist-davidovich-fokina-returns-to-monte-carlo-sfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Former finalist Davidovich Fokina returns to Monte-Carlo SFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alejandro Davidovich Fokina\u00a0continued his impressive start to the 2025 season on Friday at the\u00a0Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, where he sealed his return to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old, who reached the 2022 final in the Principality, delivered an assured performance to ease past Australia\u2019s\u00a0Alexei Popyrin\u00a06-3, 6-2 at the ATP Masters 1000 event. By notching his 18th tour-level win of 2025, Davidovich Fokina has matched the total number of victories he recorded last season, during which he ended with an 18-22 record, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve improved as a person, my maturity,&#8221; said Davidovich Fokina, who is 18-8 in 2025. &#8220;When you can control [things] off the court, it&#8217;s going to be easier to control your emotions [on the court]. Today it has proved [the progress] I am making this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">See you in the semis! \ud83d\udc4b<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Davidovich Fokina takes out Popyrin 6-3 6-2 to advance into a third career Masters 1000 semi-final<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexMonteCarloMasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RolexMonteCarloMasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vZJLqmyr6x\">pic.twitter.com\/vZJLqmyr6x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters (@ROLEXMCMASTERS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ROLEXMCMASTERS\/status\/1910641637446864986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Already a two-time finalist in 2025 (Delray Beach, Acapulco), Davidovich Fokina will attempt to add to his standout start to the campaign when he faces either\u00a0Arthur Fils\u00a0or\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz\u00a0in the semi-finals. Davidovich Fokina fell to\u00a0Stefanos Tsitsipas\u00a0in the 2022 final in Monte-Carlo, and they could set a repeat of that contest if they both advance to the championship match.<\/p>\n<p>With his run to the last four in Monte-Carlo, Davidovich Fokina is up 12 places to No. 30 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings. While Popyrin was aiming to reach his second Masters 1000 semi-final, last year\u2019s Montreal champion was unable to fend off the relentless Spaniard.<\/p>\n<p>In his maiden Lexus ATP Head2Head clash with Popyrin, Davidovich Fokina commanded from the baseline, dictating points with ease and crucially limiting his unforced error count to 13, compared with the Australian\u2019s 33. The Spaniard also dropped just four of his 15 second-serve points and did not face a single break point during the 69-minute match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaniard reached final in Monte-Carlo in 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former finalist Davidovich Fokina returns to Monte-Carlo SFs - Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/former-finalist-davidovich-fokina-returns-to-monte-carlo-sfs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former finalist Davidovich Fokina returns to Monte-Carlo SFs - 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