THE Stefanos Tsitsipas He found his back on the wall against Tun Hin Cheng, but he overturned and closed at 32 by Miami Open.
The leading Greek tennis player, Stefanos Tsitsipas, was far from his good self and was close to an unexpected exclusion from the No.115 in the world, but was serious in the game and reached a 2-1 win (4-6, 7-5, 6-3).
The Greek champion who passed by in the first round will face the 3rd round of the 1000-year-old tournament (phase of the “32”) the winner who will result from the American “battle” of Sebastian Corda-Eliot Sipizi.
In the first set, the two tennis players kept their service until the 6th Game (3-3), with Tun Hin Cheng making the break in the 7th and taking the … upper hand (4-3). Easily conquering the next game in his own service, the Asian tennis player reached 5-3 and despite Tsitsipa’s gap (5-4), brought to his own measures and the next game he served, Cleiponas 6-4.
In the second set, Tsitsipas “extinguished” Cheng’s Brick-Kick and managed to “turn” the game in his service by making it 1-0. However, he lost the opportunity to immediately take a break in the Cheng service as he was 40-15 in the second gem, his opponent “” returned “, went out third in Brick-Paid and equalized to 1-1.
Instead of making the break, this came from Cheng to the third gem, with the Greek champion remaining nervous and making significant mistakes his opponent took up 0-40 and shortly after 2-1 in the games.
Tsitsipas “angry” and … responded with his own break (the first), and immediately afterwards he easily reached 3-2 in his own service. The two continued to defend their serve (even in some cases), until the 12th of Games, with the 12th Games, Winned his gap.
In the third set, with a clearly more calm after the equilibrium, Tsitsipas entered the court determined not to “give” anything to Cheng. He kept his serve relatively 1-2, at the right time made the break in the 4th Game (1-3) and continued at the same pace reaching 1-4 through an impressive LAV-Gamen that had an ace and three more wonderful blows.
With psychology at … heights, the Greek champion all he needed was just to keep his service as the finale, against a Cheng, who had now begun to … stay out of strength and complete the fight with micro-armed (1-4).
Tsitsipas did it easily, closing the set at 6-3 and the match at 2-1.