Tennis
Tsitsipas – Aliasim 0: 2: Stefanos bowed to the older Canadian
Ozer Aliasim defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas 2-0 (4-6, 2-6) in the final of the Rotterdam Open to win the first title of his career after losing eight finals while Tsitsipas missed the first ATP 500 tournament of his career could win .
Stefanos Tsitsipas suffered a 2-0 set defeat against Ozer Aliasim (4:6, 2:6) in the final of the Rotterdam Open. The 21-year-old Canadian tennis player (No. 9 in the world rankings) won the first tournament of his career and the Greek one Tennis player lost his eighth final at an ATP 500 tournament.
Aliasim was superior in most matches, avoiding mistakes compared to Tsitsipas, was better in most stats and deservedly won the title.
The game
The game didn’t start very well for Tsitsipas as Aliasim broke on his first serve (0-1) and held until the end of the first set, winning 6-4.
Tsitsipas only had 50% of his first serve while on serve two he had just 6/16 in his opener. Aliasim threatened to break him in game five, reaching the score of 30-40, but Tsitsipas equalized by deleting the break point and then winning the advantage and then the set.
In Aliasim’s last two service games, Tsitsipas failed to score a single point, with the Canadian winning the set and ending the game with an ace.
The second set started like the first, with the 21-year-old Canadian tennis player suffering a break on Tsitsipas’ first serve. In fact, in the second set, Aliasim was not threatened at all by Tsitsipas on his serve as the best the Greek tennis player achieved was to get the score of 40-40 in the second game. Aliasim made a second break on Tsitsipas’ serve to make it 4-1, bringing him even closer to his first title.
The two tennis players held their serve until the end of the first set, which Aliasim won 6-2.
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