Stefanos Tsitsipas survives Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 5-7 7-6(4) in the 2nd round in Rome on Wednesday after conquering a huge battle. Tsitsipas will have to play Karen Khachanov in the 3rd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 37 minutes. His best result in this tournament was reaching the semifinal in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
Tsitsipas added to his prize money € 33,795 after winning this match. He has won already € 72,865 after this win. If he wins the next match, Stefanos will add € 63,360 to his earnings to get in total € 136,225 in total.
Highlights Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Grigor Dimitrov Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:37
At the end of the match, Stefanos scored 104 points vs. Dimitrov’s 98.
Tsitsipas
The Greek fired 12 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Stefanos won this match even if he was struggling when converting his break points since he converted only 33% (2/6) of the procured opportunities.
Dimitrov
On the other side, Grigor wasn’t that great in converting his break points (only 33% – 2/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Tsitsipas and Dimitrov is 5-1 for Stefanos.
Draw and next match H2H: Stefanos Tsitsipas vs. Karen Khachanov – stats
Tsitsipas will compete against Khachanov in the 3rd round.
This will be the 5th time that Stefanos Tsitsipas and Karen Khachanov fight against each other. The head to head is 4-0 for Tsitsipas (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
Live score progression and stats
Tsitsipas had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Grigor Dimitrov in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That was enough for the Greek to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks.
Stefanos was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 2nd game (1-0 15-40). On the other side, Grigor wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 7th game (2-4 30-40).
They contested 45 points. Tsitsipas was the winner of the set after clinching 7 points more than the Bulgarian (26-19). Tsitsipas conceded 6 points on serve (21-6). On the losing side, Dimitrov conceded 5 points on serve (13-5).
Dimitrov won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 7th (3-4) game, Grigor broke back in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th game to conquer the set 7-5.
Stefanos was not able to offer any resistance in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-5 to 7-5.
The Bulgarian was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 8th (3-4 30-40), the 9th (4-5 0-40) and the 12th game (6-5 15-40). In addition on the other side, Stefanos was flawless in converting all his break points in the 5th (2-2 30-40) and the 7th game (3-3 0-40).
They contested 65 points. Grigor was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than the Greek (35-30). Grigor lost 11 points on serve (21-11). on the other side of the court, Stefanos conceded 14 points on serve (19-14).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that the Greek snatched in the 9th game (4-5) prior to ultimately conquering the set (7-6).
Tiebreak
The Greek won 5 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0), 5th (5-0), 10th (6-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Dimitrov won 3 minibreaks in the 6th (1-5), 7th (2-5) and 9th (4-5) point.
Stefanos won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 5-1, 5-2, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4
They contested 90 points. Tsitsipas was the one to win the set after conquering 6 points more than Grigor (48-42). The Greek conceded 15 points on serve (30-15). Regarding the other side of the net, Grigor conceded 18 points on serve (27-18).
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