He prevailed with Serundolo’s overthrow and Tsitsipas advanced to the quarterfinals of the Paris Masters!

Tsitsipas showed character and broke Serundolo’s resistance with a reversal!

The Greek tennis player lost in the tie-break the first set to the Argentine and number 29 in the world ranking, but he did not lose his temper and reacted, turning around and celebrating the victory with a 2-1 set (6-7, 6- 4, 6-2)!

Thus, he qualified for the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters and is now waiting to find out his next opponent, which will be the winner of Alexander Zverev’s clash with Artur Fish.

The match started with the two players taking a love game and with Tsitsipas erasing two break points of his opponent for 2-1, while afterwards both successfully defended their serves and Stefanos reached a “breath” from 1-0 in sets, after leading 6-5. However, Cerundolo found an answer to tie the game at 6-6, while dominating the tie-break, which he won 7-1 to take the qualifying lead.

At the beginning of the second set, Tsitsipas reacted and came close to the break, which he finally did in the third game, to lead 2-1, while he took advantage of his excellent serve (7-0 aces) to lead by 4 -2 and 5-3, while he squandered three set points to make it 6-3, seeing his opponent reduce to 5-4. However, he did not lose his concentration and made it 6-4, leveling the score at 1-1.

The qualification was decided in the third set, where Tsitsipas lost the first game, but then responded with four consecutive won games and two breaks, finally reaching comfortably 6-2 and celebrating the victory-qualification to the quarter-finals of the competition!

The sets: 6-7 (1-7), 6-4, 6-2