Despite losing his opening set of the Vanda Pharmaceuticals Hellenic Championship<\/a> against Alexei Popyrin<\/a> Sunday evening, the American rallied for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was up and down, but overall I think I improved my level in the second set,\u201d Korda said. \u201cHe was serving great. In the first set he had eight aces, so I was just trying to put it back in the court and try to take my chances whenever I could. But [it is] always very difficult with him, he\u2019s got an incredible serve and is very aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n It was the pair\u2019s second Lexus ATPHead2Head meeting in the past month, with Korda also defeating Popyrin in three sets in Stockholm. In Athens, Korda defended his second serve much better than his opponent, winning 66 per cent of those points compared to 45 per cent for Popyrin according to Infosys ATP Stats.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old hopes to keep the good times rolling in a city he has enjoyed.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been amazing, walking around a little bit, enjoying the great food that they have here and just really enjoying it,\u201d Korda said.<\/p>\n In other action, Alejandro Tabilo<\/a> set an interesting match against top seed Novak Djokovic<\/a> with a 706(7), 6-7(6), 7-5 triumph against Adam Walton<\/a> in three hours and three minutes. Tabilo leads Djokovic 2-0 in their rivalry.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s amazing. I went to see it yesterday and it\u2019s huge,\u201d Tabilo said of the centre court in Athens, where he will likely take on the Serbian. \u201cI\u2019ve played thankfully now at the US Open<\/a> in Arthur Ashe<\/a> [Stadium], kind of feel like that atmosphere. I\u2019m just really excited to play, even with Djokovic there, it\u2019s just going to be crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n Sixth seed Nuno Borges<\/a> also advanced with a 7-6(4), 6-3 win against Greek wild card Stefanos Sakellaridis<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cazaux, Gaston advance in Metz Cazaux eliminated tricky lefty Adrian Mannarino<\/a> 6-3, 7-6(4) and Gaston ousted Terence Atmane<\/a> 6-4, 6-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Korda passes Popyrin test in Athens, Tabilo earns chance at third win against Djokovic Cazaux, Gaston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-240374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762126629_535_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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Four Frenchmen were in action Sunday at the Moselle Open<\/a> in Metz, where Arthur Cazaux<\/a> and Hugo Gaston<\/a> moved into the second round.<\/p>\n