The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas surprisingly lost his opening match at the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid against a qualifier. The world number seven, who had won ten of his last eleven games on clay, clearly lost to the Brazilian Thiago Monteiro 4:6 4:6 in the second round on Saturday.
27.04.2024 14.15
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Tsitsipas, seeded number six in Madrid and given a bye in round one, came to the event worth around 9.25 million euros with the tournament victory in Monte Carlo and the final in Barcelona (defeat against Norwegian Casper Ruud) in his luggage . The two-time Grand Slam finalist conceded against the world number 118. Monteiro got an early break to make it 1:2, which was also decisive for the loss of the first set.
In the second round, the Brazilian Tsitsipas took the serve game to take a 1-0 lead. With the score at 5:3 from Monteiro’s perspective, Tsitsipas fended off two match points on his own serve and subsequently earned his first break chance of the game, but was unable to take advantage of it. The Brazilian converted his fourth match point against the 25-year-old Greek after 1:37 hours.
Reuters/Ana Beltran Qualifier Thiago Monteiro surprisingly prevailed in two sets against Stefanos Tsitsipas
“I had a very good opponent on the other side of the net,” said Tsitsipas about his 29-year-old opponent. “He had great shots and punished me every time I played too short.” Monteiro now faces Jiri Lehecka. The Czech, seeded number 30, won against Serbian qualifier Hamad Medjedovic 7:5 6:4.
Sinner continues without any problems
Jannik Sinner, second in the world rankings, reached the third round without any problems. The number one seed clearly won against his Italian compatriot Lorenzo Sonego (ATP 52nd) 6:0 6:3. Sinner converted his first match point after 70 minutes and will now face either the number 32 seeded Australian Jordan Thompson or the Russian Pawel Kotow.
ATP 1000 tournament in Madrid
(Spain, 9,249,713 euros, clay court)
Roundtable: Jannik Sinner (ITA/1) Lorenzo Sonego (ITA) 6:0 6:3 Jordan Thompson (AUS/32) Pawel Kotow (RUS) -:- -:- Nicolas Jarry (CHI/22) Flavio Cobolli (ITA) -:- -:- Karen Chatschanow (RUS/16) Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) -:- -:- Grigor Dimitrow (BUL/9) Jakub Mensik (CZE) -:- -:- Adrian Mannarino (FRA/19) Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN) Cameron Norrie (GBR/29) Joao Fonseca (BRA) Casper Ruud (NOR/5) Miomir Kecmanovic (SRB) Daniel Medwedew (RUS/3) Matteo Arnaldi (ITA) -:- -:- Sebastian Korda (USA/25) Max Purcell (AUS) 6:3 6:3 Alexander Bublik (KAZ/17) Roberto Carballes Baena (ESP) -: Ben Shelton (USA/14) Thomas Machac (CZE) Alex de Minaur (AUS/10) Rafael Nadal (ESP) Frances Tiafoe (USA/20) Pedro Cachin (ARG) -:- -:- Jiri Lehecka (CZE/30) Hamad Medjedovic (SRB) 7:5 6:4 Thiago Monteiro (BRA) Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE/6) 6:4 6:4 Hubert Hurkacz (POL/ 8) Jack Draper (GBR) 6:1 7:5 Daniel Altmaier (GER) Arthur Fils (FRA/31) 6:2 6:3 Sebastian Baez (ARG/18) Luca van Assche (FRA) 6:4 6:7 (2/7) 6:3 Taylor Fritz (USA/12) Luciano Darderi (ITA) 7:6 (7/1) 6:4 Tommy Paul (USA/15) Lukas Klein (SVK) 6:7 (5/7). ) 6:1 6:4 Francisco Cerundolo (ARG/21) Fabian Marozsan (HUN) 6:2 7:6 (7/5) Denis Shapovalov (CAN) Thomas Martin Etcheverry (ARG/26) 7:6 (7/3). ) 6:3 Alexander Zverev (GER/4) Borna Coric (CRO) 6:3 6:2 Andrej Rublew (RUS/7) Facundo Bagnis (ARG) 6:1 6:4 Alexander Davidovich Fokina (ESP/27) Shang Juncheng (CHN) 7:5 6:3 Tallon Griekspoor (NED/24) Taro Daniel (JPN) 4:6 6:3 6:4 Holger Rune (DEN/11) Mariano Navone (ARG) 5:7 7:6 (7). /2) 6:4 Ugo Humbert (FRA/13) Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) 6:3 6:3 Jan-Lennard Struff (GER/23) Jaume Munar (ESP) 6:1 7:5 Thiago Seyboth Wild ( BRA) Lorenzo Musetti (ITA/28) 6:4 6:4 Carlos Alcaraz (ESP/2) Alexander Schewtschenko (KAZ) 6:2 6:1
