For a long time Stefanos Tsitsipas played in the leading regions of the world youth ranking list.In Shanghai, the Greek finally achieved his first victory on the ATP tour.
Miljan Zekic, for example.And this didn’t even prevent Stefanos Tsitsipas’s first success on the ATP tour, but only prevented him from participating in the main competition in Kitzbühel.Tsitsipas came into the players’ area after his defeat in late July 2017, downcast, with the family in tow.However, knowing that it can only be a matter of time before the first main field successes would come.
Now, a few months later, the time has come: The current number 131 of the world, 19 years old, has played his way through the qualification process into the 56th grid of Shanghai, and in the first round of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament, defeated the last weakening Russian Karen Khachanov.On Wednesday we continue on against John Isner, the US-American is on the fast ground of Shanghai to favor strongly.
Stefanos Tsitsipas won’t care about that at the moment, he’s already got 45 ATP-points in the second round, and with almost 40.000. – US Dollar he’s got a lot of prize money.He takes another 25 points from the qualification, the live ranking suddenly sees the right-hander in 120th place.
Tsitsipas needed nine attempts for his first victory, which should certainly encourage another, somewhat older colleague – even if Maximilian Torterer’s series is already at ten defeats at the moment.Mind you, on the ATP tour.At Challenger level, the 22-year-old German only succeeded last week in Monterrey.
Here the single panel in Shanghai