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Tsitsipas-Daniel: Premiere at Wimbledon for Stefanos!

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He throws himself into his “battle”. Wimbledon The Stefanos Tsitsipas!

The leading Greek tennis player begins his duties at the London Grand Slam from the 2nd round and will face the 31-year-old Japanese, Taro Daniel, who is ranked number 84 in the world. Shortly after 14:30 the match is scheduled to start on Court 18.

THE Stephanos coming off his two back-to-back wins against Lajovic and Korda in his friendly tournament Boodles, showing good signs in preparation for Wimbledon. Now, he is called upon to perform improved compared to his last official appearance, in his tournament Hale, where he initially cleared Squire, but was then beaten 2-0 in sets by Struff, knowing the early elimination. This will be Tsitsipas’ seventh appearance at Wimbledon, with his best runs coming in 2018 and last year when he reached the Round of 16. In his three remaining appearances (2017, 209 and 2021) he was eliminated in the first round.

His current opponent Daniel, who is participating for the 6th time in Wimbledon, but without having passed the first round even once. At number 84 in the world ranking, he has 15 wins and 19 losses in the 34 games he has played for this season, while last week he played in Mallorca, where he was defeated in his first game, 2-0 by Roberto Maputista Agut.

The winner of the pair will face the one who qualifies from the Rusuvuori-McDonaldwhile the two tennis players have only met once before, in 2018 in Tokyo, with Tsitsipas taking a comfortable 2-0 set victory (6-1, 6-3).

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