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Tsitsipas, a Greek player seeded No. 1 in the event, captured
the Stockholm crown in 2018 but hadn't been back to the event
until this week. He now has nine tournament championships, two
of them this year.
In the first-set tiebreaker on Wednesday, Tsitsipas won the
first five points but wound up needing three set points to seal
the set.
Neither player broke serve in the second set, and the subsequent
tiebreaker was a back-and-fourth affair. Cressy couldn't convert
any of his three set points, and Tsitsipas finally prevailed on
his fifth match point.
Also advancing to the quarterfinals Wednesday were second-seeded
Cameron Norrie of Great Britain, fourth-seeded Denis Shapovalov
of Canada, seventh-seeded Holger Rune of Denmark and J.J. Wolf
of the United States. Sweden's Elias Ymer won the last
first-round match.
European Open
Top-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland pulled away late for a 7-6
(5), 6-7 (5), 6-1 win over Great Britain's Jack Draper in the
second round at Antwerp, Belgium.
Hurkacz fired 22 aces to Draper's five, including a 9-2 edge in
the final set. Hurkacz also never faced a break point.
Fifth-seeded Daniel Evans of Great Britain routed France's
Constant Lestienne 6-2, 6-1 to join Hurkacz in the
quarterfinals, and eighth-seeded Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan
downed Spain's Jaume Munar 6-1, 7-6 (3). France's Richard
Gasquet defeated Switzerland's Dominic Stricker 7-6 (6), 7-5.
The United States Sebastian Korda, France's Manuel Guinard and
Austria's Dominic Thiem won first-round matches.
Tennis Napoli Cup
France's Corentin Moutet needed more than 3 1/2 hours to pull
out a 6-7 (7), 7-6 (3), 6-2 win over Italian wild-card entrant
Luca Nardi in the first round at Naples, Italy.
The match featured an astounding 32 break points, with Moutet
converting six of his 17 break opportunities and Nardi going
4-for-15.
The first round concluded with two other matches. Spain's
Roberto Carballes Baena beat Chile's Nicolas Jarry 6-4, 6-4, and
sixth-seeded Sebastian Baez of Argentina topped Italy's Lorenzo
Sonego 7-5, 7-6 (3).
--Field Level Media
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