Stefanos Tsitsipas has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Swiss Open Gstaad after overcoming Swiss wildcard Jerome Kym in a three-set contest.<\/p>\n
The Greek prevailed 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-5) in one of the longest and most closely fought matches of the day, requiring a deciding-set tie-break after rain interrupted play.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas made the stronger start, claiming the opening set 6-4 by taking his chances in the key moments.<\/p>\n
Kym responded in the second set, continuing to attack aggressively and keeping Tsitsipas under pressure. The Swiss player edged a tie-break to level the match and raise hopes of an upset in front of the home crowd.<\/p>\n
Neither player was able to break clear in the deciding set, with the contest remaining on serve before rain forced a suspension of play.<\/p>\n
When the match resumed, Tsitsipas held his nerve in the deciding tie-break, producing his best tennis under pressure to secure victory after more than two and a half hours on court.<\/p>\n
The win sends the former world No. 3 into the quarter-finals as he continues his campaign in Gstaad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas has advanced to the quarter-finals of the Swiss Open Gstaad after overcoming Swiss wildcard Jerome Kym…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-805379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}