Andrey Rublev started his semifinal in Madrid on Friday in a familiar way: With a death glare in the direction of his coaching team. It was the look of a man who had just started a match exactly the way he didn’t want to: By missing a forehand and dropping his opening service game to his opponent, Taylor Fritz. Rublev was coming off one of the best performances and biggest wins of his career, over two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz. Now he had given Fritz an immediate leg up. By the... Read this story
