Three units had been sufficient for the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas to beat the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics (7-6 [7], 6-4, 6-1). After a really aggressive first set, the 2021 finalist picked up the tempo and gave his opponent no likelihood to get his ticket for the second spherical of this Roland-Garros.
A contested first set
Unable to make the distinction on Fucsovics’ serve within the first set, Tsitsipas struggled to take the benefit initially of the match. Sheltered from the rain below the roof of the Suzanne-Lenglen courtroom, the Hungarian, threatening from the Greek’s first service sport, pushed him to the tie-break. After saving a set level, the quantity 9 seed lastly received the primary set after an hour of preventing.
Unblocked, Tsitsipas not gave his opponent time to breathe, breaking him from the beginning within the second set. Regardless of a break later within the set, Fucsovics was unable to include his opponent’s aggressive play, earlier than lastly breaking down within the third set. His saving of a match level on his serve was not sufficient to forestall the Greek from slipping into the second spherical.
Tsitsipas will face, for his second match of the fortnight, the German Daniel Altmaier, who defeated the Serbian Laslo Djere within the first spherical, on the finish of a detailed match concluded on the finish of the suspense (7-5, 6-4, 6-7 [6]5-7, 7-6 [6]).