After falling behind 3-0 within the deciding set, American qualifier Frances Tiafoe battled again to take down No. 1 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 Thursday within the second spherical of the Erste Financial institution Open in Vienna, Austria.
Tiafoe saved three of 4 break factors within the third set and broke Tsitsipas’ serve twice en path to successful 5 straight video games to make it 5-3. Tsitsipas smashed 11 aces within the match however dedicated six double faults alongside the way in which.
It is the second time in three conferences this 12 months that Tiafoe took down his higher-ranked rival; he received in straight units within the first spherical at Wimbledon earlier than Tsitsipas received revenge on the Tokyo Olympics.
5 different seeded gamers received their second-round matches, however 4 wanted all three units, together with German No. 2 seed Alexander Zverev towards Australia’s Alex de Minaur; Norwegian fourth seed Casper Ruud towards Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego; Canadian sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime towards Cameron Norrie of Nice Britain; and No. 8 seed Diego Schwartzman of Argentina towards France’s Gael Monfils.
Within the quarterfinals, Schwartzman will draw Tiafoe whereas Zverev will meet Auger-Aliassime.
St. Petersburg Open
Australia’s John Millman withstood eight aces from his opponent and received a 6-3, 6-2 resolution over Russian fourth seed Aslan Karatsev within the second spherical at St. Petersburg, Russia.
Millman saved all 4 break factors he confronted whereas Karatsev saved 10 of 12. Karatsev dedicated 5 double faults.
Karatsev wasn’t the one Russian seeded participant to lose in entrance of the house crowd. Marin Cilic of Croatia defeated No. 6 seed Karen Khachanov 6-4, 6-7 (1), 6-4.
No. 3 seed Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain wanted solely 78 minutes to beat American Mackenzie McDonald 6-3, 6-2. In a duel between two People, No. 5 seed Taylor Fritz took down Tommy Paul 7-6 (3), 6-4, whereas No. 8 seed Sebastian Korda of the U.S. misplaced to Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands 6-2, 7-5.
–Discipline Degree Media
