Tsitsipas, Wawrinka Lead As Darkness Falls In Paris
Tsitsipas, Wawrinka Lead As Darkness Falls In Paris
Stefanos Tsitsipas will have to wait until Saturday to reach his first Round of 16 at Roland Garros. Greece’s #NextGenATP star was leading Serbian Filip Krajinovic 7-5, 6-3, 5-5 on Court Philippe Chatrier on Friday night when their third-round match was suspended because of darkness.
Tsitsipas came back from 2-5 down in the third set, which included a break at 3-5 when Krajinovic served for the set. The Serbian will serve when their match resumes on Saturday.
Tsitsipas is competing in his first Roland Garros Round of 32 after reaching only the second round last year. The sixth seed is looking to build on a European clay-court season that already includes the Millennium Estoril Open title and the Mutua Madrid Open final (l. to Djokovic).
Krajinovic, meanwhile, is going for his first Round of 16 appearance at a Grand Slam after falling in the third round in January at the Australian Open.
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The winner of Tsitsipas-Krajinovic will meet the winner of Stan Wawrinka and Grigor Dimitrov. Wawrinka had just taken 7-6(5), 7-6(4) lead when their third-round match was also suspended because of darkness. The 24th seed and 2015 champion is 4-4 against Dimitrov in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series.