Stefanos Tsitsipas had to push himself to the maximum this Monday at the Miami Open presented by Itaú in order to beat the Japanese Kei Nishikori. After one hour and 56 minutes, the No. 5 in the FedEx ATP Rankings prevailed with sets of 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, to leave the ATP HeadToHead history between them at 1-1.
With this result, the 22-year-old Greek reaches 30 victories at the ATP Masters 1000 level, not bad considering that the biggest winners in the history of this category of tournaments did it with similar ages: Rafael Nadal when he was 19 years old, Novak Djokovic with 20 and Roger Federer with 21.
Tsitsipas is the second player born in 1998 or later to have more victories in this type of tournament (Shapovalov has 39). And this Monday he got it against a rival with more than 100 ATP Masters 1000 wins, and thanks to the fact that he won 89% of the points after his first service and hit 12 aces, his highest number in the season in games. two to three sets on the ATP Tour.
His performance at the end of the day was very high. He only had a bump in the second game of the second quarter in which he faced the only two break points on serve in the match. He could only save one.
And in the third set, in addition to breaking twice with the return, he won 100% of the points with the first serve (11/11), and 50% with the second (12/6). In the next round, the second seeded in Miami will seek his first qualification to the quarterfinals of this tournament, which would represent him reaching 150 matches won in his career on the ATP Tour.
But he will have the Italian Lorenzo Sonego, who has not lost sets in the contest and with whom he has no history at the tour level. The seeded No. 24 comes from surpassing Colombian Daniel Galán with partials of 7-6 (6), 6-3 and after one hour and 51 minutes of play.
The Italian was 1-4 in the first heat and had to save two set points in the 5-6 of that same quarter before eliminating Galán, who was looking to be the first Colombian to win his first three main draw matches in an ATP Masters 1000.
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