He struggled against Serundolo, but Tsitsipas made it to the “16”.

THE Stefanos Tsitsipas he almost suffered a painful overturn, but in the end managed to bend him Fran Cerudolo in the tie-break of the 3rd set and qualify for his “16”. Swiss Indoors held in Basel (6-3, 6-7{3}, 7-6{4}).

The 26-year-old Greek tennis player, No.3 on the board and No.11 in the world, was stormy at the beginning of the match and did not leave any room for reaction to the Argentine. At 1st set he led 3-0, and although he wasted several break points, he took it without much difficulty with a score of 6-3.

Although in the 2nd set broke straight away and redeemed it in his service games, leading 4-2, Cerundolo found the break on Stefanos’ serve that he was looking for and then the set went to tie break.

There o Argentinean completed the reversal in the set and being better prevailed 7-4sending the match into a 3rd set.

In the third setthe two tennis players went hand in hand to the games, with Serundolo to break first and take a big lead (5-6). THE Tsitsipas however, quite cool and confident in his rattles, he sent the set to a tiebreak.

There, even though he found himself losing 4-2, he made an amazing finale and with five points in a row he qualified for the “16” of the event, where he will face the Dutchman Van de Zandschulp (No.67), on Thursday (24/10)