#NextGenATP Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas reacts to his quarter-final victory at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell against 2017 runner-up Dominic Thiem. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Watch #NextGenATP Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas change up a baseline rally with a surprise drop shot for a winner against 2017 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell runner-up Dominic Thiem. Photo Credit: Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
#NextGenATP Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas recorded the biggest win of his career on Friday to reach the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell semi-finals. The 19-year-old capitalised on lapses in concentration from World No. 7 Dominic Thiem, who consistently played deep behind the baseline, to win 6-3, 6-2 in 80 minutes. Tsitsipas, who is currently No. 7 in the ATP Race To Milan for a spot at the Next Gen ATP Finals in November, will next challenge fifth-seeded Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta, who defeated second seed Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria. Thiem came with a point of clinching a double-break advantage for 3-0, but let Tsitsipas back into their third FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting of 2018 (Qatar ExxonMobil Open, BNP Paribas Open). Thiem hit...
Watch highlights as #NextGenATP Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas earns the biggest win of his career against Dominic Thiem, and World No. 1 Rafael Nadal saves set points against to move on at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. Photo Credit: Alex Caparros/Getty Images. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, who reached his fourth ATP World Tour quarter-final in Barcelona on Thursday, is only 19 years old, a leading candidate to qualify for the Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan, where eight of the world's best 21-and-under players will compete from 6-10 November. But the 6'3” right-hander is also leading his entire country. For nearly everything the Greek achieves on the ATP World Tour, he becomes the 'first' or the first in decades' time from Greece to celebrate the milestone. Last October, Tsitsipas became the first Greek to enter the Top 100 of the ATP Rankings and the first Greek semi-finalist (2017 Antwerp) in 44 years (Kalogeropoulos, 1973 Des Moines). And after his start to the European clay-court...