Tsitsipas finally earns a breather after reaching last 16
Nevertheless, it looked like being plain sailing when Alcaraz won his 17th consecutive set with a solitary break.
But Alcaraz steadied himself to hit back for 3-4 and then showed why he is the player at the top of the tree with an unstoppable backhand return to break before serving out for a hard-earned 6-3 6-7 6-3 7-5 victory. Greek fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas is proving as durable as the Parthenon at this year’s Wimbledon after reaching the second week still very much standing after victory over Serbia’s Laslo Djere.
After that he will focus on his fourth round match against unseeded American Christopher Eubanks who continued his impressive run on grass with victory over Christopher O’Connell on Saturday.He found himself a break down in the second set but once he repaired that damage and took the tie-break it was relatively smooth for the elegant Greek shot-maker.
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