ATP roundup: Alex de Minaur gets through tight Washington opener
De Minaur overcame a shaky start and 8 double faults to win in just over two hours and set up a second-round match with Cruz Hewitt.
- On Wednesday, defending champion Alex de Minaur launched his Washington Open title defense by defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, overcoming a shaky start against the former world number three.
- De Minaur faces 17-year-old qualifier Cruz Hewitt next, the son of Aussie great Lleyton Hewitt who captured his first-ever ATP Tour victory earlier this week.
- Filipina rising star Alexandra Eala defeated defending women's champion Leylah Fernandez to reach the quarterfinals, battling back from 5-1 down in an epic second set.
- Third-Seeded American Taylor Fritz overpowered Kamil Majchrzak to reach the quarterfinals, while Japan's Naomi Osaka advanced after American Ashlyn Krueger retired while trailing 6-3, 3-1.
- Coleman Wong recorded the top victory of his career by upsetting top-seeded Jiri Lehecka 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, equaling his best tour showing by advancing to the tournament's quarterfinals.
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ATP roundup: Alex de Minaur gets through tight Washington opener
Defending champion Alex de Minaur of Australia needed just over two hours to win his first-round match at the Mubadala DC Open, getting past Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 on Wednesday. de Minaur logged twice as many double faults as aces...
Alex De Minor "bent" Stefanos Tsitsipas with a 2-1 set and qualified for the second round of the "Mubadala DC Open" in Washington. The Greek tennis player broke out on his racket again. The post Washington: Disqualification for Tsitsipas who broke out on his racket (vid) appeared first on in.gr.
The Greek tennis player broke his racket in the third set, lost the match in Washington to De Minor 2-1 and was eliminated.
Adrian Mannarino saw his course at the ATP 500 in Washington stop in the eighth of the final in the night from Wednesday to Thursday. The Frenchman did not resist the American Alex Michelsen and fell in two sets (6-4, 7-6 [3]).
By Jerónimo Díaz Lopera In the postponed duel of Tuesday's day, in fact, for many a final advanced in the first round by the quality of the players, the Australian Alex de Miñaur, the top candidate for the title in the American capital, put a stop to the follower of five consecutive victories of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, remembering that he was consecrated in the ATP 250 Gstaad (Switzerland). The match was resolved with 6-4, 3-6 and 6-3 part…
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