With… broken brakes, he continues his frantic course this year Roland Garros The Stefanos Tsitsipas!
The Greek tennis player may have initially struggled from the Matteo Arnaldi losing the first set, however, skyrocketing his performance thereafter, he turned it around, prevailing with dominant tennis 3-1 sets (3-6, 7-6, 6-2, 6-2) after 3 hours and 14 minutes, thus celebrating the qualification to quarterfinals of the French Grand Slam for the fourth time in his career!
On his way to the semi-finals, Stefanos will face the winner of the Canadian showdown, Felix Ozier Aliasim (No. 21) and the Spanish No.3 in the world ranking, Carlos Alcarathwho compete in the afternoon.
The match:
In one enough balanced first set, where we had 4 love games, two for each athlete, o 23-year-old Italian No.35 of the world ranking “broke” Tsitsipas’ serve for 3-1, then maintained that lead with considerable difficulty, thus capturing the first set 6-3.
Arnaldi The Artist ?????
The Italian is painting lines on Lenglen ???#RolandGarros @mattearnalds pic.twitter.com/HfHhI2KiLX
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The derby continued in second set, where again Arnaldi managed to do first break for 3-2, then holding his serve for a two game lead (4-2). After that, the Italian had three set points in the 9th set to win the set, but Stefanos, with great composure, not only managed to erase them, but also won the game, reducing to 5-4. A battle which seemed to turn the “chip” of the Greek tennis player for good, who equalized at 5-5, finally winning the second set for 1-1 in the tiebreak (7-6, 4-7 in the tiebreak )!
Stefanos Tsitsi-PASS ??#RolandGarros @steftsitsipas pic.twitter.com/UoHf2yAn6Y
— Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) June 2, 2024
With acquired speed and psychology at its peak, the 25-year-old European champion skyrocketed his performance, reaching by… walking in the 2-1 set with the imposing 6-2! The result of his dominance was the 18 winners, the many points won near the net, but also his high percentage of points won after the first serve, statistics that allowed him to make two breaks on the opponent’s serve!
It was a given that the court had turned to the side of Tsitsipas, who entered the fourth set with “wild” moods, doing two breaks on Arnaldi’s even number of first serves for the in favor of 4-0! With the… water in the groove, the Greek tennis player maintained his high levels of concentration, reaching to the victory and the conquest of the set with 6-2!
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