Stefanos Tsitsipas overcame a late challenge from Jenson Brooksby to win his opening match at the Winston-Salem Open, defeating the American 6-4, 7-6(6).<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas appeared on course for a straightforward finish when he held three match points at 5-4 in the second set, but Brooksby saved them and forced a tie-break.<\/p>\n
The Greek then faced a set point at 5-6 in the tie-break before winning the next three points to close out the match after one hour and 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas saved seven of the eight break points he faced.<\/p>\n
\u201cMindset [matters],\u201d Tsitsipas said after the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone can play good tennis, everyone can hit the ball. But when the moment gets crucial, when you have to really step up, I feel like [mindset] is the only [thing] that helps.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victory levelled Tsitsipas\u2019 ATP Head2Head record against Brooksby at 1-1.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old will next face either Luca Van Assche or Aleksandar Kovacevic for a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas overcame a late challenge from Jenson Brooksby to win his opening match at the Winston-Salem Open,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-867481","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\/867481","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=867481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}