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Seventh seed Stefanos Tsitsipas suffered a shock defeat by qualifier Dominic Stricker within the second spherical of the US Open.
World quantity 128 Stricker got here out on prime of a four-hour epic 7-5 6-7(2-7) 6-7(5-7) 7-6 (8-6) 6-3.
Tsitsipas of Greece was serving for the match within the fourth set however his Swiss opponent fought again to power a 3rd tie-break.
Stricker then gained the deciding set to progress to spherical three.
The 21-year-old will subsequent face France’s Benjamin Bonzi or American Christopher Eubanks within the third spherical.
“I felt fairly good from the primary set onwards,” mentioned Stricker, who additionally beat world quantity 41 Alexei Popyrin within the first spherical.
“It was a tricky battle however I’m simply tremendous joyful proper now.
“I believe proper now the idea could be very, very excessive. The confidence is excessive and I imagine quite a bit in myself.”
It was one other early exit for two-time Grand Slam finalist Tsitsipas, who misplaced to world quantity 30 Eubanks within the fourth spherical of Wimbledon earlier this summer time.
He has additionally by no means progressed to the second week of the US Open and final yr misplaced to Colombia’s Daniel Galan within the first spherical.
