World quantity 4 Tsitsipas led the ATP Tour for many matches gained final 12 months (61), however remains to be looking his first Grand Slam title
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Third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas registered a straight-set win over France’s Quentin Halys to succeed in the second spherical of the Australian Open.
The Greek, who has but to lose a match this 12 months, gained 6-3 6-4 7-6 (8-6) on the opening day at Melbourne Park.
Subsequent the three-time semi-finalist will face Australian Rinky Hijikata, who got here from two units all the way down to beat qualifier Yannick Hanfmann.
Seventh seed Daniil Medvedev takes on American Marcos Giron afterward Monday.
“It was difficult, he got here up with some good tennis within the third set, I type of misplaced my rhythm within the serve,” stated Tsitsipas.
“So I needed to discover methods to get out of the tough state of affairs. I feel my preventing spirit confirmed in the direction of the top, I wasn’t going to surrender.”
Elsewhere within the males’s singles, teenager Shang Juncheng turned the primary male Chinese language participant to win an Australian Open important draw singles match.
The 17-year-old qualifier, the youngest participant within the males’s draw, beat Germany’s Oscar Otte 6-2 6-4 6-7 (2-7) 7-5.
“I feel it is big for Chinese language males’s tennis. Now we have had actually good gamers from the ladies’s aspect however probably not large names within the males’s,” stated Shang.
He’ll face Frances Tiafoe after the American sixteenth seed beat Germany’s Daniel Altmaier 6-3 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-8).
Tiafoe’s equipment – a squiggly pink, blue and crimson quantity – divided opinion on social media, with one consumer commenting the outfit “deserves to get to the second week minimal”.
Frances Tiafoe reached the semi-finals of final 12 months’s US Open
Former champion Stan Wawrinka fell within the opening spherical, with the Swiss shedding 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 1-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 to Slovak Alex Molcan.
American wildcard Christopher Eubanks beat the in-form Kwon Quickly-woo over 5 units to assert his first main-draw win in Melbourne.
In the meantime, Polish tenth seed Hubert Hurkacz cruised previous Spaniard Pedro Martinez in straight units and sixth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime overcame a poor first set to beat Canadian compatriot Vasek Pospisil 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) 6-3.