After Roland Garros, the pitch season began to start. This week, one of the focus tournaments is Halle Open, in the ATP 500 category. The two most noticeable names attended the tournament are Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas.
On the day of the military launch, Medvedev encountered Marcos Giron. The No. 1 seed does not face many difficulties to win. After 2 sets, the Russian player won 6-4, 6-3 and officially won tickets to the second round.
Meanwhile, Tsitsipas had a pretty hard match against the 58th rival Gregoire Barrere. Entering Set 1, the Greek tennis player has 2 breaks but does not take advantage of success. The same thing happens in game 5, game 11.
Coming to game 12, the two players mixed 6-6 and had to enter a penalty shootout. Here, Tsitsipas lost close to 6-8 and was 1-0.
Leading 1 set, Barrere confidently entered Set 2. The French tennis player won the previous break in game 3, but did not keep the advantage. He lost 2 breaks in the rest of Set 2 in Game 6 and Game 10, thereby losing 4-6.
Set Set 3, the two players no one won the break and once again entered the brain tie-break series. This time, Tsitsipas played more brave. He won 7-3 and officially won tickets to the third round.
