In the Rogers Cup 2021, Stefanos Tsitsipas is among the top candidates for the championship. This assessment became more and more facilities when the Canadian tournament was missing the trio of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
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After falling in form when being eliminated early in both Wimbledon and the Tokyo Olympic Games, Tsitsipas had impressive performances at the Rogers Cup. He is expected to have another big name for the Next Gen generation Daniil Medvedev to win tickets to play in the final. Even so, this prospect has not happened.
This morning (August 15), Tsitsipas played in the semi -finals of the Rogers Cup. Encountering the opponent is considered the “umbrella” of the tournament – Reilly Opelka, the Greek tennis player suddenly lost and officially said goodbye to Toronto.
Right from Set 1, the two players brought the audience a dramatic competition. Accordingly, they played to take shreds through each game and chased the score extremely narrow. Finally, set 1 must be solved with a series of brain tie-breaks. Here, Tsitsipas played better and won 7-2 gap.
Set set 2, the script in set 1 is repeated. Accordingly, no player won the break in the set and once again resolved the victory with tie-break. In a series of brainweight guns, Opelka turned the flag upside down when he won 7-4, thereby equalizing the score 1-1.
Entering the set 3 decisions, Tsitsipas showed psychological instability. Accordingly, at the key time is Game 7, the Greek player loses the break. After that, he returned the 2nd serve when he had to save a lot of match-point in the 10th game, thereby receiving 4-6 defeat in the last set.
In the end, Tsitsipas lost 1-2 and missed an appointment with the Rogers Cup 2021 final.
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