Stefan Cicips from Greece, the fifth racquet in the men’s tennis, entered the final of the French Open Championship on Friday and will play in his first Grand Slam match on Sunday.
Cicips in the semi-final heavy duel with the result 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3 beat the sixth number of the ranking Aleksandrs Zverevs.
Cicips will be the first Greek tennis player to play in the Grand Slam final.
Zverev played after the first two losing sets and in the fifth set at the result 2-5 did not allow the opponent to realize four match balls. However, in the next game, Cicips put an end to a three-hour, 40-minute fight.
Cicips played in his third Grand Slam semi-final. In the previous two – yesterday in Australia and last year in France – he lost to Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, respectively. One of these tennis players will be his opponent in the finals of this year’s French Open.
Cicipa’s 22-year-old mother Jūlija Salņikova (now Apostoli) used to play professional tennis. In the eighties, together with Ģirts Dzelda, she won the USSR championship mixed doubles, but together with Agnes Gustmanis she won one ITF doubles title.
The second Grand Slam of the season – the French Open – will run until Sunday.
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