Stefanos Tsitsipas has just experienced a very disappointing clay season. In the last 3 tournaments including Barcelona Open, Madrid Open and Roland Garros, the Greek player was eliminated from the second round. Currently, he has dropped to 25 on the World ATP rankings.
Immediately after the expansion of France, Tsitsipas decided him to cooperate with the legendary Goran Ivanisevic. The Croatian coach was once behind the great success of Novak Djokovic and promised to bring Tsitsipas valuable experiences. The first signal is quite positive when the Greek player has just won in the first round of Halle Open – ATP 500 on the pitch.
This match, Tsitsipas' opponent is Luciano Darderi – 56th in the world. He soon had a break to lead 3-2 and maintain the advantage to win the first set. However, to Set 2, Darderi has gained strong area to win 6-3 and bring the match to the starting line.
The set of decisions takes place when Darderi creates up to 5 chances to break the game but cannot take advantage. Tsitsipas maintained the psychology, winning the tie-break series after needing four match points to finish the match. The match ended after 2 hours 25 minutes with a score of 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5) in favor of the Greek player.
With this result, Tsitsipas raised the series of winning matches in the opening round to the number 5. In the second round, he will confront the winner in the match between the No. 5 seed Francisco Cerundolo and young American talent Alex Michelsen.
Another name has just fought the army at Halle Open, Daniil Medvedev. The Russian player only takes exactly an hour to overcome Altmaier with a score of 6-3, 6-3.
This match, Medvedev took advantage of 3 of 6 chances to win the break and save both Break Point facing. Altmaier tried to hold hope when saving two match points in the opponent's serve game, but eventually still had to put the racket in Match Point third. In the second round, Medvedev will face Quentin Halys, who previously defeated his compatriot Benjamin Bonzi 6-4, 6-4.
