Tennis shooting star Stefanos Tsitsipas continues its success at the Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne. The Greek is in the round of the best Four and where it meets and possibly on the current number one.
Tsitsipas could not believe his luck after the transformed match ball hardly
Two days after his Coup against defending champion Roger Federer, the Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas has reached as the first player to make the semi-finals of the Australian Open. The 20-Year-old won in the quarter-finals after 3:15 hours against the Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut in four sets 7:5, 4:6, 6:4, 7:6 (7:2) and for the first Time at one of the four Grand Slam tournaments in the semi-final round.
“It feels like a fairy tale. This is what I’ve worked for,” said Tsitsipas. Especially satisfied with the Greek was that he was able to continue its strong performance in the last round and the victory against his Idol Federer: “The greatest challenge is the preparation for this Match was. I’m glad I played well today. This shows that this was no coincidence.”
Tsitsipas also played against Bautista Agut again boldly to the front. The World Ranking Of 15. from Greece premium losses on repeating in the first and third set, respectively, and made in the crucial moments of the points against Bautista Agut. The 30-year-old Spaniard had thrown in the course of the tournament, the previous world ranking list, Andy Murray from great Britain and last year’s finalist Marin Cilic of Croatia out of the race. For Bautista Agut, the number 24 in the world rankings, it was the first quarter-final at a Grand Slam tournament.
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Next opponent of Tsitsipas either of the former world-ranked Rafael Nadal of Spain or the 21-year-old American Frances Tiafoe, in the last game of the day on Thursday. On Monday was adopted, with Alexander Zverev, the last German tennis professional of the Australian Open.
Kerber-Vanquisher Collins reached the semi-finals
In the competition of women’s Danielle Collins reached the semi-finals. The US-American, who had defeated on Sunday, the Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber, against the Russian Annastassija Pawljutschenkowa from Russia in three sets with 2:6, 7:5, 6:1 . In the round of the best Four, her first Grand Slam semi-final, it will be the 25-Year-old to do with the Australian local hero Ashleigh Barty, or the two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic.
sn/ck (dpa, sid)