After the championship Monte Carlo Masters, Stefanos Tsitsipas was present in Spain to attend Barcelona Open. This is ATP 500 on the ground. Here, the Greek tennis player is ranked No. 1.
Following the sublimation momentum, Tsitsipas had an impressive pitch when they passed Ilya Ivashka and Grigor Dimitrov. In the semi -finals, the Greek player had the opportunity to meet young star Carlos Alcaraz. Two previous encounters, Tsitsipas lost, and he still could not break “the” for the third time.
Entering Set 1, the two players entered the cautious and created a struggle. However, the turning point came in game 9 when Alcaraz won the first break of the match. Coming to Game 10, “Little Nadal” does not make mistakes to successfully protect his gaming game, thereby winning 6-4.
Set 2 witnessed the great efforts of Tsitsipas. In this set, Alcaraz had a very good start when he won 2 breaks to continue to lead 4-1. However, Tsitsipas reclaimed both breaks in games 6 and 8 to bring the set back to the balance.
To the decision 12 game, Tsitsipas had once won the break. Set 2 ended with a 7-5 victory in favor of the Greek player, bringing the match into the 3 decision set.
At the final set, Tsitsipas lost completely. He took turns to lose the break in the first two gaming games and lost the game in the hands of Alcaraz. In the rest of the set, the No. 1 seed could not turn the flag upside down and put the racket with a 2-6 defeat.
In the end, Alcaraz defeated Tsitsipas with a score of 2-1 and officially won tickets to the semi-finals of Barcelona Open. Here, the opponent of “Tieu Nadal” is the seed No. 10 Alex de Minaur.
