PARIS : Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas was made to work hard for more than three hours to book his spot in the French Open second round with a 7-5 6-3 4-6 7-6(7) win over Czech Jiri Vesely on Sunday.The Greek, runner-up in Paris in 2021, did not expect the kind of resistance offered by a player ranked 445t
PARIS : Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas was made to work hard for more than three hours to book his spot in the French Open second round with a 7-5 6-3 4-6 7-6 win over Czech Jiri Vesely on Sunday.
"Today's win is a very important for me," said Tsitsipas, who has not enjoyed his best clay court season."I felt at times I was not going to the ball, I was staying still. When I took charge that was the moment I made that switch and won the match." Tsitsipas had initially struggled with the tall left-hander's awkward spin but was now stretching his opponent with deep cross-court forehands, bagging the second set with another break.
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