Tsitsipas “cleaned” Hurkacs and reached the semifinals of the Astana Open

It took Stefanos Tsitsipas (No.6) 1 hour and 40 minutes to send the Pole out of the Astana Open Hubert Hurkacs won 2:0 sets (7:6(8), 6:3).

This was the Greek champion’s 52nd win of the season and 7th against the Pole in nine encounters, and his 29th win against a top 10 athlete. In the semifinals of the tournament he meets Andrei Rublev, who also defeated Adrian Mannarino 2-0 (7/10) in the first quarterfinals on Friday.

In his match, Stefanos Tsitsipas didn’t have any problems in the games he served while, on the contrary, he filled almost all of his opponent’s service games. However, the 24-year-old Greek reached the spring but did not drink any water.

Typically, he created eight break points in three different games in the first set, but didn’t convert any of them, allowing the two athletes to settle their differences in the tiebreak.

There, Hurkatz seemed to bat better and had five chances to finish the set, culminating in the triple set point he had at 6-3. At that point, Stefanos Tsitsipas found a way to escape from the difficult situation he was in and then finish the first set.

The second set was a different picture. The two tennis players held their serve without any particular problems until the eighth game. Tsitsipas then capitalized on the only break point he created in that set, breaking and then holding to end the set and the match.

The statistics of the game were characteristic of Tsitsipa’s appearance. Steph finished the match with 26 winners for just nine unforced errors. At the same time, he did an excellent job there He passed 71% of the first serves, of which he won 86% of the points (38/44), while also having 78% (14/18) on the 2nd serve.

Now the number 6 in the world meets Andrei Rublev. The two have faced each other nine times, with Tsitsipas counting five wins and the Russian four wins.

Of those games, four have been played on indoor hard-surface courts and both have had two wins.