By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Thursday, June 6, 2023
To be continued.
Each Andy Murray and Stefanos Tsitispas may have an evening to sleep on issues earlier than resuming their up to now stellar second spherical encounter at Wimbledon.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Murray finds himself main two units to at least one 6-7(3), 7-6(2), 6-4 over the No. 5 seed Tsitsipas. The match was suspended because of the native council curfew that prohibits exercise after 11 p.m in consideration for native residents.
The second spherical match lived as much as its early billing as each males performed exceptionally nicely delighting the partisan Centre Court docket crowd hoping that Murray might pull off the upset.
But Murray raised some query marks about his bodily well being within the late phases of the third set.
Murray, whereas serving to take the third set, slipped at the back of Centre Court docket and fell to the bottom. Issuing a pointy cry of ache, Murray appeared to injured his groin or thigh. Happily for him, he managed to get again on his ft and serve out the possibly decisive third set at 6-4.
A couple of minutes later, each gamers agreed to name time on the match and resume issues tomorrow after the scheduled Carlos Alcaraz and Alexandre Muller second spherical assembly.
Earlier than that, the match proved to be an thrilling and shut encounter with every participant displaying off their best possible in entrance of the Centre Court docket crowd.
After a really shut first set, Tsitsipas used his forehand to nice benefit to finally take the opening set tiebreak.
The second set proved simply as shut. But, Murray who served nicely and saved his unforced errors to a minimal and pushed issues to a different tiebreak. On the third level, Tsitsipas netted a forehand that handed Murray an early mini-break that he held onto to finally take the tiebreak and degree together with his opponent.
Murray then broke Tsitsipas at love at first of the third set. Murray, who solely had 10 unforced errors up to now, held onto his break benefit to finally shut out the set 6-4 and take the 2 units to like lead.
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