Stefanos Tsitsipas (No.11) performed below his usual standards against Emil Rusuvuori, suffering a shock 3-1 set loss (7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3) and was eliminated from the It’s Wimbledon.
Stefanos Tsitsipas (No.11) lost for the first time in his career to Emil Rusuvuori and was eliminated from the second round of Wimbledon.
The best tennis player from Greece suffered a shock defeat at the hands of the Finns, who won 3-1 (7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3) qualified for the first time in the third round of the British Open.
Now, Tsitsipas turns his attention to the men’s doubles. However, he is in competition with his brother, Petro, but they do not have the opposite side as they lose 1-0 sets to Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni when they were upset by the darkness.
The game
The game went wrong for him from the start Tsitsipahfor although he served first to take the first game of the match then and only in the third game did he get the break from Russiawho took advantage of the first break point.
Stefanos showed his quality with two service games to reduce to 4-3 and 5-4, and with the opportunity he had he broke the Finnish serve to make it 5-5.
Emil served to stay the set making it 6-6, sending the set to a tie break. Then, the opponent of the main tennis player of Greece was calmer, he got the first two points, he did not give into the mini series 3-0 that Stefanos did and with 8-6 he won the 13th game and won 1. -0 in the sets.
The second set was more or less the same as the first, the only difference being that neither player managed to break their opponent’s serve, as each had one chance. of them they lost. Tsitsipas in the first game and Rusuvuori in the sixth game.
The result of this was that the second set progressed, where the Finn once again gave himself better decisions in his checks.
He turned the situation against him twice, after finding himself behind 9-8 and 10-9 and with three points in a row (two aces and a double fault from Stefanos on the server) he won 7-6 again and went ahead with. 2-0 in the sets.
Despite his 10 aces, Tsitsipas also had four double faults on his serve.
In the third set, Stefanos changed the court, improved his percentages in the first and second serve and comfortably reduced to 2-1, leaving the first of the three steps needed for the upset.
The break the Greek tennis player wanted came quickly, but only in the third game. So, he went 4-1 without dropping a point and finished the third set with four straight points in the ninth game to reverse a 30-0 deficit to make it 6-3 in games.
However, as was his performance Tsitsipah in the third row it was just a blip. THE Russia he won the quarter final and as it happened the last series with a 6-3 match and went on to the third round Wimbledon for the first time in his career.