Stefanos Tsitsipas topples Grigor Dimitrov 7-6(6) 6-4 in the 1st round in Vienna on Tuesday. Tsitsipas will have to play Frances Tiafoe in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 41 minutes. This run will match his best achievement in this competition. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Greek added to his prize money € 11,945 after winning this match. He has won already € 28,105 after this win. If he wins the next match, Tsitsipas will add € 16,860 to his earnings to get in total € 44,965 in total.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Grigor Dimitrov Erste Bank Open – Vienna
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Stefanos won this match even if he won the same amount of points of the Bulgarian (69 vs. 69).
Tsitsipas
The Greek served very well to win 82% of the points (37/45) behind his first serve, and he won 59% points (17/29) on his second serve. Stefanos was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that he procured (1/2).
Dimitrov
On the other side, Grigor wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Tsitsipas and Dimitrov is 2-1 for Stefanos.
Draw and next match H2H: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Frances Tiafoe – stats
Tsitsipas will face Tiafoe in the 2nd round.
This will be the 5th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Frances Tiafoe clash against each other. The head to head is 3-1 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Tsitsipas won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Tokyo back in July 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Eventually, the Greek won a thrilling breaker 8-6 after a huge fight with 14 points played.
Tiebreak
Tsitsipas won 3 minibreaks in the 12th (6-6), 13th (7-6) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, Dimitrov won a minibreak in the 3rd (2-1) point. Stefanos was amazing when he saved 3 consecutive set points before winning 5 consecutive points.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 4-6, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
Tsitsipas wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 5th game (2-2 40-A). The Greek saved 4 set points when he was 3-5, 3-6, 4-6 and 5-6 down. On the other side, Grigor was unable to convert any of his 3 break points. He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 4th game (2-1 30-40).
They contested 85 points. It’s worth to point out that, Stefanos won this set even if he scored less points 3 than Dimitrov (41-44). The Greek conceded 12 points on serve (31-12). on the other side of the court, the Bulgarian conceded 10 points on serve (32-10).
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Greek conquered in the 10th game (6-4).
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