Stefanos Tsitsipas’ trial continues in 2024. The Greek still hasn’t found a good feeling this season and this Saturday he suffered another setback after falling in his debut at the Miami Open against Denis Shapovalov by a resounding 6-2, 6-4.
Tsitsipas added his name to the long list of seeds eliminated in these early days of the competition. The first of them was Andrey Rublevwho fell on Friday in doubles 6-4 against Czech Tomas Macchac, 60th in the ranking.
But the escabechina arrived this Saturday, on a stormy day marked by rain which forced the game program to be delayed and caused some games to be finished in the early hours of the morning, and others to be postponed until Sunday.
The earliest to rise when it was time to say goodbye was Tommy Paul (13)who retired due to injury after losing the first set (6-4) against Martin Damm, and Taylor Fritz (12)surpassed in his debut by Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild (n.76).
Argentine Tomas Etcheverry (n.30) was also removedwho fell to Andy Murray (n.62), while Sebastián Báez (n.19) succumbed to Dominik Koepfer (6-3 and 6-2).
Another surprise came from Australian Christopher O’Connell (n.66), who defeated American Frances Tiafoe (n.22) 7-5 and 7-6(5) and Alexander Bublik (17) fell to Matteo Arnaldi 6-4, 6-1.
Well-known candidates advanced to this Masters 1,000 such as the Italian Jannik Sinner (n.3), the Russian Daniil Medvedev (n.4) or the German Alexander Zverev (n.5).
The day was also not quiet in the women’s category where they said goodbye this Saturday Aryna Sabalenka (2), Ons Jabeur (6), Qinweng Zheng (7), Jelena Ostapenko (9), Beatriz Haddad Maia (11), Elina Svitolina (15) and Anastasia Potapova (30).
Source: La Verdad
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