The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas the Australian of Greek origin lost Thanasi Kokkinakis, with a score of 6-1 and 6-4, and evened the score of the Laver Cup of tennis that will be held this weekend in Berlin with a victory.
After the victory of Argentina Francisco Cerundolo in the opening match against Norwegian Casper Ruud, Tsitsipas did not hesitate to equalize the overall standings.
The world number 12 and two-time Grand Slam finalist made his intentions clear and scored the first five games of the match to gain ground.
Kokkinakis, 78th in the ATP rankings, seemed to be at his best in the duel and could hardly recover from the first set with a point, which was resolved by a very strong 6-1 for the Greek.
The second started with a new ‘break’ for Tsitsipas who, this time, decided to dose his effort instead of printing the frenetic speed shown in the opening round.
Despite some hectic shots by the Australian, which left nerves in the second set, the Greek was able to maintain the advantage and finish with 6-4.
Thus, Europe puts electronic parity at the end of the daytime session, before the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Alejandro Tabilo start the afternoon session, in the duel that will serve as a prelude to the highlight of the day: the doubles between the American couple Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton against the German team Alexander Zverev and Spanish Carlos Alcarazwho was very active on the bench advising and encouraging Tsitsipas.
Source: La Verdad
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