ATP Hamburg: Stefanos Tsitsipas confidently one round further
Stefanos Tsitsipas moved into the second round at the ATP Tour 500 tournament in Hamburg without any problems. The Greek defeated Daniel Evans 6: 3 and 6: 1 and now meets either oldie Pablo Cuevas.
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last edit: Sep 23, 2020, 03:35 pm
If the organizers of the ATP Tour 500 tournament in Hamburg were concerned about whether they would be able to pull off the tight program on the Center Court on Wednesday: At least the first three games of the day did not take up too much time. First, Benoit Paire withdrew from the competition with Casper Ruud in the second set, the French complained of general malaise and severe signs of fatigue, which after the announcement that Paire had delivered two positive corona tests in Hamburg, may not be a coincidence (the youngest The test, however, turned out negative - that's why Paire was allowed to compete).
In the second match, Yannick Hanfmann started a courageous race to catch up against Cristian Garin, but in the end he left the center court as a loser. The final score was 6: 3 and 7: 6 (3) for the Chilean, who won the ATP Tour 250 last year Tournament in Munich. Garin will play either against Félix Auger-Aliassime or Alexander Bublik in the round of 16.
Tsitsipas leads on the balance sheet against Cuevas
Stefanos Tsitsipas was in a particularly hurry against Daniel Evans. The Greek, who, after Daniil Medvedev's elimination against Ugo Humbert on Tuesday, is the highest ranked player in the tableau, stood for just 59 minutes to move into the second round 6: 3 and 6: 1. A veteran, Pablo Cuevas, who fought his way through qualification on Rothenbaum, is waiting there. Tsitsipas and Evans have a very similar style of play, alone, the hits of the reigning ATP world champion come with significantly more verve over the network than those of Evans.
Tsitsipas had to digest some sporting disappointments in the past few weeks: First he lost in the Masters 1000 tournament, which was moved from Cincinnati to New York City, as he did at the Australian Open against Milos Raonic, at the US Open he couldn't six match points against Borna Coric use - and also the appearance at the tournament in Rome against Jannik Sinner last week was very irregular. The 22-year-old man from Athens has won both previous matches against Pablo Cuevas - most recently in 2019 in the Estoril final.