PARIS RESULTS. Tsitsipas prevails over De Minaur in the 3rd round. Djokovic next.

Stefanos Tsitsipas hustles Alex De Minaur 6-3 6-4 in the 3^rd round in Paris on Thursday. Tsitsipas will have to play Novak Djokovic in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Tsitsipas started the set strong after breaking De Minaur in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break was sufficient for Tsitsipas to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks.

2^nd set.

Tsitsipas had a head start at the beginning of the set to break De Minaur in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Greek to win the set since Alex managed to break back in the 8^th (4-4) game. Stefanos kept his cool to break the Australian in the 9^th (5-4) game before conquering the set (6-4).

Alex lost the 9^th game (5-4) when he had 3 consecutive game points when leading 40-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Tsitsipas scored 63 points vs. the Australian’s 40 points.

Tsitsipas served pretty well to win 85% of the points (29/34) behind his first serve, and he won 82% points (9/11) on his second serve. The Greek fired 11 aces without committing any double fault. Stefanos was sharp when converting 60% of the break points that he procured (3/5). On the other side, the Australian was well focused in converting 50% of the break points that he procured points (1/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Tsitsipas and De Minaur is 4-0 for Stefanos.

Tsitsipas’s Interview

Post match interview (1/2) #tsitsipas #RolexParisMasters 💪🏻✌🏻 pic.twitter.com/cTFYEo3Epx

— sunny 🎾🦁 (@sunny_8876) October 31, 2019

Next Match: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Novak Djokovic – stats

Tsitsipas will square off with Djokovic in the 4^th round.

This will be the 4^th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Novak Djokovic face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.

The last time that they played each other, Tsitsipas won 3-6 7-5 6-3 in the quarter in Shanghai back in October 2019.

Tennis Scores in Paris

• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Kyle EdmundEdmund (7-6⁷ 6-1) – See score progression
• Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (2-6 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Radu AlbotAlbot (4-6 6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-2 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Dominic ThiemThiem (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Rafael NadalNadal – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Christian GarinGarin – Jeremy ChardyChardy (6-7⁴ 6-4 7-6⁶) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Jo-Wilfried TsongaTsonga – Rafael NadalNadal (4-9) – See H2H details
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-2) – See H2H details
• Christian GarinGarin – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (0-0) – See H2H details
• Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Gael MonfilsMonfils (0-1) – See H2H details