Stefanos Tsitsipas Beats Sonego To Reach Cincinnati QFs | ATP Tour

Stefanos Tsitsipas superior to his fifth ATP Masters 1000 quarter-final of the season Thursday evening with a preventing win over Italian Lorenzo Sonego on the Western & Southern Open. The Greek notched a Tour-leading forty seventh match win of the season with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory to set a Friday quarter-final with Matteo Berrettini or Felix Auger-Aliassime.

“He was going for each single shot and his footwork was near unbelievable,” Tsitsipas mentioned. “He can do injury towards high-ranked gamers. Issues obtained actually troublesome in a couple of moments however I stayed there and waited for the chance to current itself.”

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Tsitsipas had not gained a match on the Lindner Household Tennis Centre earlier than this week, though he did attain final yr’s semi-finals when the event was performed in New York as a result of pandemic.

Sonego surprised the second seed with an explosive opening set through which he hit 15 winners to a few unforced errors and by profitable 87 per cent of first-serve factors.

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Within the first sport of the second set, Tsitsipas dug himself out of a 0/40 gap for simply the fifth time of the yr and broke Sonego within the subsequent sport to steal the momentum. The previous Nitto ATP Finals champion took a extra aggressive posture contained in the baseline and gained 11 of 13 web approaches.

The Greek additionally broke the 26-year-old World No. 27 within the first sport of the third set and by no means relinquished his stranglehold on the match as Sonego didn’t get a sniff at a break level within the decider.

“That was a sport changer,” Tsitsipas mentioned of the maintain within the first sport of the second set. “After discovering my sport from that a part of the match onwards, issues began working fairly nicely for me. The psychology sort of modified and I used to be having that preventing spirit and never letting go was very essential.”

Each gamers had clear stats sheets, with Tsitsipas boasting 24 winners to fifteen unforced errors and Sonego 35 winners to twenty unforced errors. However the Greek’s edge in profitable 31 of 51 factors of five-to-nine-shot length proved decisive.