In today’s stellar duel, the Greek defeated Italian Jannik Sinner in a four-hour match and fought his way to the top eight round of the first Grand Slam of the year. The big surprise was the fall of Félix Auger-Aliassime at the hands of Jiri Lehecka.
This Sunday saw another day of action in the australian open the first major of the season, where the first matches of the round of 16 of the tournament .
In this sense, the comparison that stole the eye was the one that starred Stefanos Tsitsipas (4th) and Jannik Sinner (16th) frequent protagonists of the circuit, and that ended with the victory of the first after four hours and two minutes of intense play, a match that lasted until the fifth set .
The first and second sets were for the native of Athens on the same score, 6-4 in which he had to demand until he got two breaks that would allow him to close the partials in his favor.
In the third set came the reaction of the Italian, who with a break took the score 6-3 . The recipe was applied again in round four to call actions with a score of 6-4 .
But while everything seemed to indicate that Sinner’s psychic boost would be unstoppable for Tsitsipas, he managed a key break in game six, which would be enough for him to win the game with a 6-3 final .
With this victory, the Greek reached the top eight round of the first Grand Slam of the season for the fourth time in his career and in the next phase he will face the Czech Jiri Lehecka (71st) who again created the surprise by beating the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (7th) by partials of 4-6, 6-3,7-6(2) and 7-6(3) after more than three hours of meeting.
Note that the 21-year-old player he had already left the Croatian Borna Coric (23rd) in the first round and the Briton Cameron Norrie (12th) in the previous phase on the road therefore a priori presented as a badass for Tsitsipas, his next rival.
New triumph of the executioner of Garín.
Another who maintains a winning streak is the American Sebastien Korda (31st) , who beat the Chilean Cristian Garín (87th) on his debut after defeating the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (11th) by partials of 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 1-6 and 7-6 (10-7) after three and a half hours of play.
The son of Pierre Korda -winner of the Australian contest in 1998, edition in which he imposed himself in the decisive duel against Marcelo Rios – Addition of a new victory against a player called to be part of the candidates, after that of the previous match left Daniil Medvedev (8th) on the road former world number 1.
In the quarter-finals of the oceanic tournament, The American will face another Russian, Karen Khachanov (20th) who prevailed before Yoshihito Nishioka (33rd) by a free kick 6-0, 6-0 and 7-6 (4) .
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